Question

what is a problem with this code. I cannot go into insert function if table is empty, it is always doing update. Can anyone help me to solve this thing?

  while ($row = $result->fetch_object()) {

         if ($result->num_rows > 0) {

               $updatequery = sprintf("UPDATE stat_mailings SET cat_id='%s', mailing_name='%s', mailing_unique_id='%s', segment_id='%s', 
                                                                        campaign_id='%s', landing_page='%s', total_sent='%s' WHERE mailing_id='%s'",
                                        $row->category_id,
                                        mysqli_real_escape_string($mysqli, $row->mailing_naam),
                                        $row->unique_id,
                                        $row->mailing_segment,
                                        mysqli_real_escape_string($mysqli, $row->utm_campaign),
                                        mysqli_real_escape_string($mysqli, $row->landing_page),
                                        $row->mailing_total_sent, 
                                        $row->id                                           
                );

                 $mysqli->query($updatequery);
                 echo $error = $mysqli->error;   


        } else {

           $insertquery = sprintf("INSERT INTO stat_mailings SET mailing_id='%s', cat_id='%s', mailing_name='%s', mailing_unique_id='%s', segment_id='%s', 
                                                                        campaign_id='%s', landing_page='%s', total_sent='%s'",
                                        $row->id,
                                        $row->category_id,
                                        mysqli_real_escape_string($mysqli, $row->mailing_naam),
                                        $row->unique_id,
                                        $row->mailing_segment,
                                        mysqli_real_escape_string($mysqli, $row->utm_campaign),
                                        mysqli_real_escape_string($mysqli, $row->landing_page),
                                        $row->mailing_total_sent                                                                                       
                );

                 $mysqli->query($insertquery);
                 echo $error = $mysqli->error;      

        }

Answer 1

Mysql has great feature exactly for this purpose – ON DUPLICATE query.
It looks like

INSERT INTO t SET f1=val,f2=val2 ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE f1=val,f2=val2

and so on.
Only make sure you have an UNIQUE index on the key field.
So, you can get rid of your SELECT query and it’s result checking.