Question

My company recently moved a php website to a new server. I updated all of the links and references to the database, etc. The problem is that in the new location the database is recognized and when the php page performs a sql query the results appear to be found but not displayed.

For example, if you log in as an admin and click on “People” it should list all of the members of the site. However, when you log in as admin and click “People” it displays 6 pages of blank lines (old site works fine). Am I missing something simple? Why can it read the info but not display it properly?

Answer 1

Couple things to try/think about:

1. Turn on ‘display_errors’
2. raise the reporting level and pay attention to notices.
3. Check for a different version of PHP
4. Specifically, look for differences in the MySQL functions/methods if the PHP version is different. This may affect the portion of code which iterates over your responses.

My gut says the problem will be in the line that iterates your results. Since it appears to be iterating the right number of times, but the data is not there, I suspect you are getting good results but not fetching them properly. This is feasible if there is a newer version of PHP involved.