Question

I have a field on a read only SQL table called attended can only hold two values either 0 or 1.

This is how I am printing the field at the moment:

  echo "<td>" . $row['attended'] . "</td>";

It only returns 0 or 1 – the value in the attended field. How can I have it return no for 0 (i.e not attended) or yes for 1 (i.e. attended).

Many thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You can use the ternary operator (also known as the conditional operator in some languages) ?::

echo '<td>' . ($row['attended'] ? 'yes' : 'no') . '</td>';

This operator is mentioned in the manual page Comparison Operators under the heading “Ternary Operator”.