Question

I have a really simple function:

function experience_query($id) { $sql = @mysql_query( ' SELECT * FROM table WHERE id = $id '); return('$sql'); } 

When I call this function:

$q = categories_query('1001');  while( $list = mysql_fetch_assoc($q) ) { extract($list); echo $name; } 

I am getting an error’ ‘mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource…’

Am I allowed to return mysql queries from a function?

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

Replace this:

return('$sql'); 

With this:

return $sql; 

By surrounding $sql in quotes you are returning the string representation of the MySQL resource.