Re: select now();

[Paul DuBois]

At 2:13 PM -0600 11/24/99, <apocoliptica@stripped> wrote:
>when I do this I get what is expected:
>
>mysql> select now() + 0;
>+----------------+
>| now() + 0      |
>+----------------+
>| 19991124184547 |
>+----------------+
>1 row in set (0.00 sec)
>
>but when I do this in a script I don't get those similar results:
>
>$now="select now() +0";
>$current_time=mysql_query($now,$db);
>echo "$current_time";
>
>No matter what time it is, I get a "2" for a value.  What am I doing wrong?

Not reading the description of mysql_query() in the PHP manual.

mysql_query() returns a result set identifier, not the results of the
query.  You'll need to check it to make sure the query succeeded,
and if so, use one of the row-fetching functions to retrieve the result.

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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped