as you said, the table is empty. mysql_fetch_object should return NULL.
that's why the block in the while statement doesn't got executed.
while (($row = mysql_fetch_object($result))){
if($row->team_id == "$team_id"){
echo "It is in there";
}else{
echo "We will need to add it to the tab
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>: I have a strange, but probably easy to fix problem. I need to check to
>see
>: if something is in a table...that part is easy, but if the table is empty,
>: it doesn't go
I have a strange, but probably easy to fix problem. I need to check to see
if something is in a table...that part is easy, but if the table is empty,
it doesn't go through my "while" statement so that I can create something
in it. I am sure that if there was something in the table, that I wou