Warning: mysql_fetch_row(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result

Warning: mysql_fetch_row(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in C:htdocshomeforumsviewforum.php on line 6

the other day a customer reported a problem with their website, he was doing some changes and could not find out what he did to cause this error.

in case you are also having this problem, today i will show you what's going on and how to fix it.


on line six of his viewforum.php file is said:


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looking at the code, you can clearly see that he forgot to put the WHERE in the $sql declaration. so to fix it, it should look like this:



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so basically if you are getting this erros it means that way you are declaring your sql fetch has an incorrect format, you probably forgot to add something, mispelled a word or a variable or have something a table or field in the database that doesn't exist.