RE: [PHP-DB] If select query doesn't net any results

2003-01-09 Thread Doug Thompson
You're absolutely right. It must be the 1.5 hours of sleep last night that made my brain shrivel up like that. 8( Doug On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:45:00 -0500, John W. Holmes wrote: >> ... >> if ($result) { >> while ($row... >> ... >> } >> >> $result will be 0 (false) if nothing satisfies t

RE: [PHP-DB] If select query doesn't net any results

2003-01-09 Thread John W. Holmes
> ... > if ($result) { > while ($row... > ... > } > > $result will be 0 (false) if nothing satisfies the query. Any other > comparison is just extra typing with no improvement in logic. No, it only returns false/0 if the query fails, meaning there was an error and the query couldn't

Re: [PHP-DB] If select query doesn't net any results

2003-01-09 Thread Doug Thompson
... if ($result) { while ($row... ... } $result will be 0 (false) if nothing satisfies the query. Any other comparison is just extra typing with no improvement in logic. Regards, Doug On Thu, 09 Jan 2003 13:06:51 -0500, Michael Cortes wrote: >I am a programming novice

Re: [PHP-DB] If select query doesn't net any results

2003-01-09 Thread Chris Boget
> I would like to created an if statement that only occurs if the query gets a result. > If there are > no records that meet the query conditionals and my array ends up with null, I do not >want my if > statement to take place. > Is this easy enough to do? Any help would be great. if( mysql_n

RE: [PHP-DB] If select query doesn't net any results

2003-01-09 Thread Ryan Jameson (USA)
if (mysql_num_rows($result) < 1) { //do stuff } This is only this easy with mySQL... :-) <>< Ryan -Original Message- From: Michael Cortes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 11:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] If select query doe

[PHP-DB] If select query doesn't net any results

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Cortes
I am a programming novice and just created my first php application. However I have a situation I don't know the answer to. My db queries (mysql) are written like this: $qtrans= "select * from $table where (conditionals) order by some field"; $link=mysql_connect ($host, $user