this seems to work!!
 
thanks Jamie and to everyone else for lending a hand.
 
Neil
----- Original Message -----
From: Jamie Holly
To: support@drupal.org
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [support] Printing "0" when a db query returns nothing

Cast it as an integer:

print (int) $output->DownloadCount;
Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net 
http://www.hollyit.net

On 4/9/2010 12:49 PM, Neil Coghlan wrote:
I am trying to print the number of downloads a user's attachments have produced and am 95% there. I just don't know how to print zero if the SUM returns nothing.
 
here's what I have so far (with download count module installed which creates file_downloads table)
 
<?php
$query= "SELECT SUM(count) AS DownloadCount
FROM upload
JOIN files
ON upload.fid = files.fid
JOIN file_downloads
ON files.filepath = CONCAT( 'sites/default/files/', file_downloads.filename )
WHERE (files.uid = $account->uid)";
$results = db_query($query);
while($output = db_fetch_object($results)){
print $output->DownloadCount;
}
?>
 
works perfectly for those whose content have created downloads. For those who haven't, the result is a blank space. How can I print a nice fat "0"??
 
regards

Neil


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