[thelist] Simple PHP question

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El mar, 23-09-2003 a las 18:31, Geoff Sheridan escribió:
> Impossible to do a search on this, but probably very simple:
> 
> What does the  = @  mean in the following snippet?
> 
> while ($row = @ mysql_fetch_row($result)){
> 
> ...do something with row
> }
> 
> How is it different from just =  ?
> 


The @ tells any function to crash silently if things go wrong and not to
dump ugly error messages to the screen.