Error with mysql_fetch_assoc [duplicate] - php

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i am just implementing a simple part of my website that just takes a variable from the header(subid) checks it with the database and then outputs the other fields related to the variable.
However i am getting this error -
Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/admin/public_html/report.php on line 14
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''/home/admin/public_html/log/log_274b43e6ad_New Text Document (7).txt.txt' at line 1
Here is the code for my page that does it all
include 'connect_to_mysql.php';
$sql_header = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM system");
$header_array = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql_header);
$total_scans = $header_array['total_scans'];
$malware_detected = $header_array['malware_detected'];
$total_users = $header_array['total_users'];
$report_id = $_GET['log'];
var_dump($report_id);
$sql_report = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM logs WHERE log_name='$report_id");
var_dump($sql_report);
$report_array = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql_report) or die(mysql_error());
$file_name = $report_array['file_name'];
$file_size = $report_array['file_size'];
$submission_date = $report_array['submission_date'];
$result = $report_array['result'];
$status = $report_array['status'];
Any ideas on what could be wrong? I have tried everything and checked my database, all the names are correct and everything, i even checked the $report_id variable in the database and it matches, so i am not sure why it is getting an error.
Thanks for the help

Your code it not doing any error checking, so it's no surprise the query breaks silently when it fails. Check for errors and it will tell you what is going wrong - how to do it is outlined in the manual on mysql_query() or in this reference question.. Example:
$sql_report = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM logs WHERE log_name='$report_id");
// Bail out on error
if (!$sql_report)
{
trigger_error("Database error: ".mysql_error(), E_USER_ERROR);
die();
}
In your specific case, you are missing a closing ' in
WHERE log_name='$report_id")
Also, the code you show is vulnerable to SQL injection. You need to escape every value you use like so:
$report_id = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['log']);
for this to work, you need to put every value in your query into quotes.

You forgot a quote '$report_id' .

Here there are two things you have to notice :
1) the warning with mysql_fetch_assoc() .
This warning will occur when the argument passed to it is not an vaide mysql resource ,ie,
the mysql_connect() returned null object(failed to return conection object) . This inturn is caused due to fact that arguments passed to mysql_connect() are bad database credentials.
this case is usualy traped by using
is_resource($con)
call which returns true if $con is an valid resource.
2) The error as described in the error discription is due to bad syntax of query.
"SELECT * FROM logs WHERE log_name='$report_id"
here you ommited closing brace for $report_id
"SELECT * FROM logs WHERE log_name='$report_id'"
3) data base access :
An generel method of accesing database is by using an class , that access the database credentials through Accessor methods like setUname() , SetPasswd() etc , where the method itself will trim , escape and sanitize the credentials before it is passed to database.
this will prevent sql injection attack

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Well $row contains an object, so would have to use it as such, maybe
$rown = (string)$row->names;
... assuming you want the variable to contain the 'names' attribute you just SELECTed from Sphinx index.
As for the mysql EXISTS(), no idea what you really doing here, seems confused. How you structured it currently suggests that 'names' attribute in sphinx contains a complete SELECT query, that mysql could execute for the exists condition. That seems unlikely.
Guessing you meaning to more normal query something like
$mquery = "SELECT text FROM claims WHERE text LIKE '%$rown%' LIMIT 0,1000";
But that is subject to SQL injection, particully if names might contain single quotes. SO should escape it. Perhaps
$rown = mysqli_real_escape_string($mysqlcon, $row->names);
But might be worth reading up on prepared queries.
btw, the 'Error' you getting, is because you creating an invalid query and not dealing with it. So $mysqlresults is FALSE.
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Query failed: You have an error in your SQL syntax;
check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server
version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1
I have narrowed down the error to these lines:
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$dupsid = true;
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Your first line defines $reg, then you try to use the undefined $regid
Nearly positive $regid is not defined, at least not within the scope of the code you included.
Trace that variable back or define at as something and you should be fixed.
Most likely your error lies somewhere else.
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Then turn error reporting on
Then run your code again and find the real place where error occurs from the stack trace.
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select
reguniqid
from
v_events_registrants
where
reguniqid
=
:RAND_SID
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$stmt->bindValue(':RAND_SID', $rand_sid, PDO::PARAM_INT);

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I am getting an error when querying a table in my MySQL database. It's the standard one with mysqli_num_rows when there is no value in the variable that's being passed:
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$sql_messages = "SELECT * FROM messages WHERE `to`='$userid'";
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mysql_result(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource error? [duplicate]

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Creating a login system for something and am getting:
Warning: mysql_result(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in .../func/user.func.php on line 21
Here is my code:
function user_register($email, $name, $password) {
}
function user_exists($email) {
$email = mysql_real_escape_string($email);
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//this is line 21:
return (mysql_result($query, 0) == 1) ? true : false;
}
Your SQL is full of syntax errors, single quotes are used to quote string literals, backticks (or double quotes in standard SQL) are used for identifiers. Try this:
$query = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(user_id) FROM users WHERE email = '$email'");
You don't need to quote any of those identifiers so don't bother.
From the fine manual:
For SELECT, SHOW, DESCRIBE, EXPLAIN and other statements returning resultset, mysql_query() returns a resource on success, or FALSE on error.
You probably want to add some error checking after you've fixed your SQL syntax errors.
There is an error in your query. If you want to figure out what the error is, output it with mysql_error()
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If your query call had been constructed something like this:
$result = mysql_query(...) or die(mysql_error());
you'd have been informed of the syntax error. As it stands now, your code assumes the query succeeds, which is a very bad thing to do. There's precisely ONE way for a query to succeed, and far too many ways for it to fail.
Your code has no error handling, so if anything goes wrong, it continues on blissfully unaware trying to make soup out of stones. Take a look at the examples in the manual, they all check for errors in the query before they try to analyze the result.

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We have a function used within our PHP/MySQL application which returns basic configuration information, it contains a simple select query and looks like this:
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So you'd want to use something like this:
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$qr1 = mysql_query ($query)
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You might want to give this a shot and see what the underlying error message says.
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Maybe try to duplicate the setup on another box and then start experimenting with the versions/settings, and see if any of the already reported scenarios match your case. Unfortunately, seems there's no single simple answer to this.

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