[PHP] how to determine if a mysql query returns an empty set?

2009-04-23 Thread Adam Williams
Is there a way to determine if a mysql query returns an empty set? I am selecting 10 results at a time with a limit statement and need to know when i've ran out of rows. I've only got 2 rows in the database, so when I start with row 10, it returns an empty set. I have the following code:

Re: [PHP] how to determine if a mysql query returns an empty set?

2009-04-23 Thread Nitsan Bin-Nun
mysql_num_rows() maybe? if not I probably haven't understood your question. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Adam Williams awill...@mdah.state.ms.uswrote: Is there a way to determine if a mysql query returns an empty set? I am selecting 10 results at a time with a limit statement and need to

Re: [PHP] how to determine if a mysql query returns an empty set?

2009-04-23 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Adam Williams awill...@mdah.state.ms.us wrote: Is there a way to determine if a mysql query returns an empty set?  I am selecting 10 results at a time with a limit statement and need to know when i've ran out of rows.  I've only got 2 rows in the database, so

Re: [PHP] how to determine if a mysql query returns an empty set?

2009-04-23 Thread Adam Williams
Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: mysql_num_rows() maybe? if not I probably haven't understood your question. Thanks, I never thought of trying that. This code works! $mysqli_get_requests = mysqli_query($mysqli,$get_requests); if (!mysqli_num_rows($mysqli_get_requests))

Re: [PHP] how to determine if a mysql query returns an empty set?

2009-04-23 Thread Adam Williams
Andrew Ballard wrote: It won't be any of those because the query is successful even if it returns no records. You could use http://us2.php.net/manual/en/mysqli-stmt.num-rows.php to determine how many rows were returned. Andrew Oh ok, thanks that makes sense. Thanks for the link also --