Question

I get this error Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource

when I changed my code to this

$term = $_POST["term"];
$query = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM planet1 WHERE MATCH (title) AGAINST ('$term')");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $query )) {
echo $row['id'],'<br>';
} 

Answer 1

This happens when there is an error during the execution of the SQL query :

• mysql_query() returns false
• and that’s not a resource as mysql_fetch_array() expects.

You should try calling mysql_error(), to have some information about the error that’s caused by the execution of your MySQL :

$query = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM planet1 WHERE MATCH (title) AGAINST ('$term')");
if (!$query) {
    echo mysql_error();
    die;
}

Note: of course, this echo+die is OK while developping, but should never be present on a production server.