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Checking to see if DB cell contains data or not

Hi,

<?php print mysql_result($result,2,"domain");?>

How do I convert the line above so it only prints the line if the database read attempt has data and does not return an error ?  i.e. if database only has 2 rows and I attempt to access the third row which does not exist ??

Thanx
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for($i=0; $i<mysql_num_rows($result); $i++) {
   print mysql_result($result,$i,"domain");
}

Howver, if you have large data-sets, its better to go with mysql_fetch_row() or mysql_fetch_array()
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Hi MirageSF,

You can check if 2 is greater than mysql_num_rows($resultofyourquery)

Also, you can do this:

while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($resultofyourquery)) {
   echo($row["domain"]);
}

Regards,
Zyloch
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MirageSF

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Also, how do I set the output text as a LINK so that people can click on the outputed db code and goto another page ?
while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
   echo "<a href='otherpage.php'> $row['domain'] </a>";
}
Im putting the values directly into a table using individual PHP code segments, a FOR or WHILE loop would cause problems, I need an IF statement of some kind that actually checks if that row has data in the first column if so print if not then do nothing

Thanx
Just make sure you keep the $results of the mysql query, like this:

$res1=mysql_query("your query");

Then, every time you need a new row, compare the new row number with mysql_num_rows($res1);
>> I need an IF statement of some kind that actually checks if that row has data in the first column if so print if not then do nothing

while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
   if(!empty($row['domain']))
        echo "<a href='otherpage.php'> $row['domain'] </a>";
}

Is this something what you want ?
If empty doesn't work, and it should, change !empty to isset
"domain" is column name, so it is always SET inside the while loop, yeah?
got thid error from last segment of code...


Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING
i dont see any errors with that piece of code. if the error is showed in line 10(for example), please post your code from line 7 till 12.
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   if(!empty($row['domain']))
        echo "<a href='otherpage.php'> $row['domain'] </a>";
}

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Try this:
echo "<a href=\"otherpage.php\">" . $row["domain"] . "</a>";
ok works now, but produces a line of results, basically I need to tell it to look in row 0 and if data print result, on another row of the table I get it to look at row 1 and print results, then I go on and on.

Basically on my own table created in html I use...

echo "<a href='otherpage.php'>";print mysql_result($result,0,"domain");echo "</a>"

and

echo "<a href='otherpage.php'>";print mysql_result($result,1,"domain");echo "</a>"

for example and they work great if there are 2 tables, as soon as I use (which is empty) I get an error plastered within the table..

echo "<a href='otherpage.php'>";print mysql_result($result,2,"domain");echo "</a>"

If it was possible to do...


   if(!empty(mysql_result($result,0,"domain")))
echo "<a href='otherpage.php'>";print mysql_result($result,0,"domain");echo "</a>"

that would do the trick, but it produces errors like that
Why can't you do it like Idbkutty says with the while ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)) ?

That's basically the standard way to do it. If your links are different or whatever, you can make another array to correspond to it.
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How do I change the link so it matches the domain within the DB ?

<?php echo "<a href='http://www.'>"; print mysql_result($result3,0,"domain");echo "</a>";?>

Sorry for all the little questions, but im starting to make sense of alot of stuff and have pretty much got what I need working, about 5% left and im done me thinks, not bad for a days work ;)

Thanx
You mean

<?php echo "<a href='" . mysql_result($result3,0,"domain") . "'>" . mysql_result($result3,0,"domain") . "</a>"; ?>