Question

I think my mind must be going through a Boxing Day mess.

I am building a basic comment section for every game a sports team plays.

So, when no comments are entered (in the MySQL DB), I simply want to display “Be the first to enter a comment”; otherwise, display the comment results table in html format.

I can easily display the comment result table.

For some reason, I can’t get the IF no comments to work properly. Feel so amateurish right now . . . 🙂

I have declared row count:

 $row_count = 0;

I am adding to the count inside the while statement

     while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
     {
          // adding to count
          $row_count++;

My count is working as I can display the row number to the screen.

Here is IF / ELSE my code:

    if ($row_count === 0) {
        echo "<p>Be the first to enter a game comment and earn points toward your next fan badge.</p>";
    } else {
                   // no need to show code as this already works!

Answer 1

$row_count = 0;

I am adding to the count inside the while statement

     while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
     {
          // adding to count
          $row_count++;
       }

My count is working as I can display the row number to the screen.

Here is IF / ELSE code:

    if ($row_count == 0) {
        echo "<p>Be the first to enter a game comment and earn points toward your next fan badge.</p>";
    } else {
                   // no need to show code as this already works!
             }