Question

I have this code:

while($m = $movieResult->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC)){
       // stuff happens here
}
return $stuff;

It works but What I really need is to detect when the while loop doesn’t run like this example but with multiple iterations of the while loop:

if($m = $movieResult->fetch_array(MYSQLI_ASSOC)){
      // stuff happens here
      return $stuff;
}
else{
     return false;
}

Answer 1

I am not sure which extension you are using (pdo/msqli/…) but i think you can see if there are any results first before starting your loop

Example:

if ($movieResult->num_rows > 0){
    ... your while loop here
}else{
   return false;
}