Too strange, I starting to give up
 

This is the strangest thing I've ever seen. A .php which was working earlier now doesn't work and backups won't help either.

Basically, the file won't open. There is no 404 error, it simply won't display and eventually, timeout.

If I change the code
to (very small change, get rid of the _first)

The file actually opens. However, the next line fails to work:

Even though it looks perfectly fine. This exact code appears again exactly in another DO request and works fine but this one....

I'm starting to think it's server related but why this would happen on the server is beyond me. It's really puzzling and sinve I've spent hours over this, I'm at my wit's end.

Help?

If you use while, you can't use query_first ;)

Now, since you're gonna use while, the ORDER BY can be dumped, we can re-apply that later.

So, try this:
That should do, tell me if not.

:) thanks for telling me. That makes sense. The only thing is, if I do just query, the file won't load period and it'll eventually time out (I've tried the above code too).

[slumps] It only will load with query_first. Very, very odd.

Could you post the table definition.

Is this from AN-net's Stock Hack?

if you use'
then,

Unfortunately, that also sends it into a timeout

And yes, it is from AN-net's stock hack

I've also tried inserting just another query_first infront of the regular query to see if query_first is required but that fails as well.

However, when used, the query works fine, that's not an issue.