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

[jfunchio]

I keep getting this error when I try to run and print out the results of my database query. I know that this error usually mean that my query failed but i can't figure out what is wrong with it.

$genre=readline("Enter Genre: ");
  $query = "SELECT movie_title FROM movie WHERE movie_genre = $genre";
  $result = $db_obj->query("$query");
  while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
        echo $row['movie_title']. " - ". $row['movie_genre'];
        echo "\n";
        }

I've even tried just using "SELECT movie_title FROM movie" to see if it would work without the variable but it still gave me the same error.

[tomato.pgn]

Replace this part of your code ...

$query = "SELECT movie_title FROM movie WHERE movie_genre = $genre";

with this...

$query = "SELECT movie_title FROM movie WHERE movie_genre = '".$genre."'";

Hope that it will work..

[vibhaJ]

tomato is right.
If field is integer then you can direct use php variable but here you have to use single quote.