Warning: mysql_fetch_assoc() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given

Question

i am getting this error when trying to perform the following query:

$sql = mysql_query(\"select c.id as id_car, c.year, c.make, c.model, c.type, c.colour, 
              


        

Answer 1

The value of $sql is probably false. This happens if the query you tried to execute failed to execute, usually due to a syntax error in the SQL.

Generally, you want your query code to look like this:

if ($result = mysql_query ('SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar = \'baz\''))
{
    // resultset processing goes here
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc ($result))
    {
    }
}
else
{
    echo (mysql_error ());
}