On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 19:18, ryanne cruz wrote:
> hi list.
>
> this is my script:
>
> $query7="select provinceid from province where province like '$tablename1';";
> $result7=pg_exec($conn,$query7);
> if(!$result7){
> .
> .
> .}
> else {
> .
> .
> .
> }
>
> my problem is when the value of the variable $tablename1 is not on the table
> province, it doesn't go to the if statements. what am i doing wrong?
You need to test for the number of rows returned. The $result7 is
simply true because the statement worked (it was syntactically correct)
even though no rows are returned.
if ( $result7 && pg_NumRows($result7) > 0 ) {
... process some rows ...
}
else {
... this might be an error ...
}
Regards,
Andrew.
>
> thanks!
>
>
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