Re: Re: How to output a NULL field?

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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Andrew Ballard<aballard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Shawn McKenzie<nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> First off, if the value is NULL in the database then in PHP it will be
>> the string "NULL" and not a null value as far as I remember.
>
> I've not seen this happen. I've found, depending on the database and
> the data access library used to interface with it that NULL usually
> comes back as either the PHP NULL value or an empty string.
>
> Andrew
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One option then, might be to format the result with SQL using a CASE
WHEN THEN statement or ISNULL / IFNULL to set it to empty string

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