Re: Table shows even when if () is false

The definition of 'empty' changed several times in the life of PHP. I think an empty array was always empty though... Still, if it's giving you grief, just use http://php.net/count On Wed, August 22, 2007 4:06 pm, Dan Shirah wrote: > From my understanding, if $result_deferred_comments is empty, than > none of > the code below the if should be executed, correct? > > The actualy rows/columns that would contain the data do not appear, > but I am > still seeing the "DEFERRED PAYMENT REQUEST COMMENTS" table. Is the > only way > to block out EVERYTHING from being displayed if > $result_deferred_comments is > empty to use " " around all of the HTML and not exit out of the PHP > tags? > Or am I doing something else wrong? > > Or, is it a problem with (!empty())? Since the value is an array, > will it > never be parsed as empty even if there is no data retrieved? > > Below is my code: > > <?php > $credit_card_id = $_GET['credit_card_id']; > > $deferred_comments= "SELECT * FROM comments WHERE credit_card_id = > '$credit_card_id' AND request_type = 'D'"; > $result_deferred_comments = mssql_query($deferred_comments) or > die(mssql_error()); > > if(!empty($result_deferred_comments)) { > ?> > <table width="700" border="1" align="center"> > <tr> > <td bgcolor="#FF9900"> > <div align="center"><strong>DEFERRED PAYMENT REQUEST > COMMENTS</strong></div></td> > </tr> > </table> > <table width="700" border="0" align="center"> > <?php > while ($row_deferred_comments = > mssql_fetch_array($result_deferred_comments)) { > $id_deferred_comment = $row_deferred_comments['request_id']; > $dateTime_deferred = $row_deferred_comments['comment_date']; > $deferred_comments = $row_deferred_comments['comments']; > $deferred_wrap_comments = wordwrap($deferred_comments, 60, "<br > />\n"); > ?> > <tr> > <td width='108' height='13' align='center' > bgcolor="#FFD9C6" > class='tblcell'> > <div align='center'><?php echo "$id_deferred_comment" > ?></div></td> > <td width='148' height='13' align='center' > bgcolor="#FFD9C6" > class='tblcell'> > <div align='center'><?php echo "$dateTime_deferred" > ?></div></td> > <td width='444' height='13' align='center' > bgcolor="#FFD9C6" > class='tblcell'> > <div align='left'><?php echo $deferred_wrap_comments; > ?></div></td> > </tr> > <?php } ?> > </table> > <?php } ?> > > Thanks, > Dan > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?