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Asked: 2026-06-05T02:28:43+00:00

Hi i have a repeating recordset, in which i want to hide some entry(html

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Hi i have a repeating recordset, in which i want to hide some entry(html div) in a row as required.
my database has a table with 7 columns, now i have a condition when i dont wont to display a entry(element) in a row.

to explain further please look at my html code block. 

<?php do { ?>
<div class="category-container">
<div class="category-image"><?php echo $list['image']?></div>    
<div class="category-desc"> <a href="<?php echo $list['titlelink']?>"><?php echo $list['title']?></a>
<p><?php echo $list['description']?></p></div>       
<div class="rating<?php echo $list['rating']?>" >Editors' rating: </div>    
<div class="category-download-btn"><a href="<?php echo $list['download']?>">&raquo; Download &raquo;</a></div>    
<div class="category-buy-btn"><a href="<?php echo $list['buy']?>">&laquo; Buy &laquo;</a></div>    
</div> <?php } while ($list = mysql_fetch_assoc($result2)); ?>

i have a div ("class=category-buy-btn") which i want to hide in case when there is no buy link, i have set it fetch url from database.

A simple approach to do this that come to me is making a new column ‘buydiv’ and putting the entire div in this column ‘buydiv’ and not to put value in row which i dont want to show, like this.

<?php echo $list['buydiv']?>

in place of 

<div class="category-buy-btn"><a href="<?php echo $list['buy']?>">&laquo; Buy &laquo;</a></div>

content of $list['buydiv'] will then have these values.

<div class="category-buy-btn"><a href="<?php echo $list['buy']?>">&laquo; Buy &laquo;</a></div>

Now this is really not a good aproach to do it, can someone please suggest me any better way to do it.

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just make it conditional on $list['buy'] being non-empty:

    <?php if (!empty($list['buy'])) : ?>
<div class="category-buy-btn"><a href="<?php echo $list['buy']?>">&laquo; Buy &laquo;</a></div>    
<?php endif ?>

    Update: In order to make sure your UTF-8 strings are displayed correctly, you need to tell the browser to interpret the page as UTF-8:

    header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

    and make sure your SQL queries are being run as UTF-8:

    mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");

    See this for more info, and see this for a more exhaustive guide to Unicode in PHP. It’s potentially quite a confusing topic, so it’s worth reading about. This is also very instructive reading:

    The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

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