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On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:29 PM, David McGlone <da...@dmcentral.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 27 June 2010 04:08:24 Tanel Tammik wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > how to select only if value is present?
> >
> > $query = $db->query("select menus.id, menus.name,
> > case
> > when panels.id is not null then '1'
> > end as hiddenpanel
> >
> > from " . \DB_MENUS . " as menus
> > left join " . \DB_HIDDENPANELS . " as panels on (menus.id =
> > panels.menu_id)
> > where menus.id='" . (int)$id . "'
> > ");
> >
> > i would like to select hiddenpanel only if there is a corresponding value
> > in DB_HIDDENPANELS. At the moment i get NULL if there is no
> corresponding
> > value in HIDDENPANELS table!
>
> I would use an if statement since you only need to determine true or false.
> Something like:
>
> $query = $db->query("select menus.id, menus.name,
> from " . \DB_MENUS . " as menus
> left join " . \DB_HIDDENPANELS . " as panels on (menus.id =
> panels.menu_id)
> where menus.id='" . (int)$id . "'
> ");
>
> if (empty(DB_HIDDENPANELS)) {
> echo "";
>
> }
>
> else {
> echo "hiddenpanel";
>
> }
>
> But I would wait for others to chime in on this one, because I'm very far
> from
> an expert, there's also got to be a much better efficient way to write the
> if
> statement above, but it's what I would do in a case like this until I found
> a
> better way.
>
> --
> Blessings,
> David M.
>
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