On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 11:08:13AM +0530, Sachin Keshavan wrote:
> 
> I am trying to execute the Query
> SELECT MAX(RECORDNO) AS MAXREC FROM BOOKS;
> 
> while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result))
> {
>        $bookID = $row['MAXREC'];
> }
> 
> This query fails. Am I doing any thing wrong here. 

Don't ask us.  Ask MySQL.  After running the query (I assume you ARE
running the query, via mysql_query(), right?) throw in an echo call to
mysql_error().  That'll tell you what went wrong:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-error.php

--Dan

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