mysql_fetch_array()/mysql_fetch_assoc()/mysql_fetch_row()/mysql_num_rows etc… expects parameter 1 to be resource

Question

I am trying to select data from a MySQL table, but I get one of the following error messages:

mysql_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource,

Answer 1

Try this code it work fine

assign the post variable to the variable

   $username = $_POST['uname'];

   $password = $_POST['pass'];

  $result = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM userData WHERE UserName LIKE $username');

if(!empty($result)){

    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
        echo $row['FirstName'];
     }
}