Question

I’m trying to see if its possible to test for a certain result specific to a boolean value in an SQL database.

if($result = $mysqli->query("SELECT * FROM `work_orders` WHERE `is_open` = '1' ")) 
{
    show_workorder($result);
}

I would then want to execute:

#TRUE allows this to show
if($result = True){
    echo "<p> No current work orders are open. Good Work !</p>\n";
    return;
}

If i change database in work_orders.is_open , the boolean is 0, meaning its “not open” .. the if statement for TRUE above, still shows…

I am sure that I’m missing something.

Answer 1

Seems I have solved my own question:

the if statement should just test for rows that were returned or not.

if($result->num_rows == 0) 

this would allow it to show if there is nothing returned. If results are returned then it will continue moving forward.