Checking for empty result php pdo mysql

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Please  can anyone tell me what I m doing wrong here  I m simply retrieving results from a table then adding them to an array  Everything works as expected until I check for an empty result     This gets the match  adds it to my array and echoes the result as expected    today   date  Y-m-d   strtotime  now       sth    db- gt prepare  SELECT id email FROM db WHERE hardcopy    1  AND hardcopy date  lt    today AND hardcopy sent    0  ORDER BY id email ASC      sth- gt bindParam   today   today  PDO  PARAM STR    if   sth- gt execute           db   null       exit       while   row    sth- gt fetch PDO  FETCH ASSOC          this- gt id email      row  id email         echo  row  id email         db   null   return true     When I try to check for an empty result  my code returns  empty   but no longer yields the matching result    today   date  Y-m-d   strtotime  now       sth    db- gt prepare  SELECT id email FROM db WHERE hardcopy    1  AND hardcopy date  lt    today AND hardcopy sent    0  ORDER BY id email ASC      sth- gt bindParam   today   today  PDO  PARAM STR    if   sth- gt execute           db   null       exit       if   sth- gt fetchColumn          echo  not empty       while   row    sth- gt fetch PDO  FETCH ASSOC              this- gt id email      row  id email             echo  row  id email                db   null       return true     echo  empty    db   null   return false     As always  any help is appreciated  Thanks

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Even though this is an old thread  I thought I would weigh in as I had to deal with this lately   You should not use rowCount for SELECT statements as it is not portable   I use the isset function to test if a select statement worked    today   date  Y-m-d   strtotime  now       sth    db- gt prepare  SELECT id email FROM db WHERE hardcopy    1  AND hardcopy date  lt    today AND hardcopy sent    0  ORDER BY id email ASC       I would usually put this all in a try catch block  but kept it the same for continuity if   sth- gt execute array   today   gt  today            db   null       exit        result    sth- gt fetch PDO  FETCH OBJ   if  isset  result- gt id email         echo  empty     else       echo  not empty  value is  result- gt id email       db   null    Of course this is only for a single result  as you might have when looping over a dataset

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If you have the option of using fetchAll   then if there are no rows returned it will just be and empty array   count  sql- gt fetchAll PDO  FETCH ASSOC     will return the number of rows returned

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You re throwing away a result row when you do  sth- gt fetchColumn    That s not how you check if there s any results  you do  if   sth- gt rowCount    gt  0          got results       else      echo  nothing       relevant docs here  http   php net manual en pdostatement rowcount php

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what I m doing wrong here    Almost everything    today   date  Y-m-d       no need for strtotime   sth    db- gt prepare  SELECT id email FROM db WHERE hardcopy    1  AND hardcopy date  lt    today AND hardcopy sent    0  ORDER BY id email ASC      sth- gt bindParam   today   today      no need for PDO  PARAM STR   sth- gt execute       no need for if  this- gt id email    sth- gt fetchAll PDO  FETCH COLUMN      no need for while  return count  this- gt id email      no need for the everything else   effectively  you always have your fetched data  in this case in  this- gt id email variable  to tell whether your query returned anything or not  Read more in my article on PDO

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One more approach to consider   When I build an HTML table or other database-dependent content  usually via an AJAX call   I like to check if the SELECT query returned any data before working on any markup   If there is no data  I simply return  No data found     or something to that effect   If there is data  then go forward  build the headers and loop through the content  etc   Even though I will likely limit my database to MySQL  I prefer to write portable code  so rowCount   is out   Instead  check the the column count  A query that returns no rows also returns no columns    stmt- gt execute     cols    stmt- gt columnCount       no columns    no result set if   cols  gt  0           non-repetitive markup code here     while   row    stmt- gt fetch PDO  FETCH ASSOC

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sql    dbh- gt prepare  SELECT   from member WHERE member email     username  AND member password     password       sql- gt execute      fetch    sql- gt fetch PDO  FETCH ASSOC       if not empty result if  is array  fetch            SESSION  userMember      fetch  username          SESSION  password      fetch  password        echo  yes this member is registered     else       echo  empty result

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I only found one way that worked      quote    pdomodel- gt executeQuery  SELECT   FROM MyTable       if   is array  quote      didn t work   if   isset  quote      didn t work  if  count  quote     0        yep the count worked      echo  Record does not exist        die

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Thanks to Marc B s help  here s what worked for me  note  Marc s rowCount   suggestion could work too  but I wasn t comfortable with the possibility of it not working on a different DB or if something changed in mine    also  his select count    suggestion would work too  but  I figured because I d end up getting the data if it existed anyways  so I went this way    today   date  Y-m-d   strtotime  now       sth    db- gt prepare  SELECT id email FROM db WHERE hardcopy    1  AND hardcopy date  lt    today AND hardcopy sent    0  ORDER BY id email ASC      sth- gt bindParam   today   today  PDO  PARAM STR    if   sth- gt execute           db   null       exit       while   row    sth- gt fetch PDO  FETCH ASSOC          this- gt id email      row  id email         echo  row  id email        db   null    if  count  this- gt id email   gt  0        echo  not empty       return true     echo  empty   return false

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