UPDATE doesn't create mysql resource SOLVED with thanks in the last post

[niche]

I'm doing some debugging and just discovered UPDATE doesn't create a mysql resource (makes sense when I think about it). Is there a work around available? If not I suppose I'll use a timestamp.

Edited June 5, 2012 by niche

[justsomeguy]

Here's the section in the manual about that:

For SELECT, SHOW, DESCRIBE, EXPLAIN and other statements returning resultset, mysql_query() returns a resource on success, or FALSE on error.For other type of SQL statements, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, DROP, etc, mysql_query() returns TRUE on success or FALSE on error.

I'm not sure what kind of workaround you're looking for. What do you need in a return value?

[niche]

I want to visually verify the UPDATE without having to visually sort rows. My table has a timestamp so I'll use the in a SELECT. Thanks for your help jsg.