Question

I have the following query.

SELECT COUNT( * ) AS offer_count
  FROM restaurants_offers
WHERE DATE( NOW( ) ) 
   BETWEEN date_start
   AND date_end
AND restaurant_id =1

Now, when count is greater than zero I want to select true else false, instead of count as the query result. How to do that?

Answer 1

Try this:

SELECT IF(COUNT(*) > 0, 'true', 'false') AS NewResult
  FROM restaurants_offers
 WHERE (DATE(NOW())  BETWEEN date_start AND date_end) AND 
       restaurant_id = 1