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In PHP convert mySQL null to ""
How do I convert null values to an empty string i.e. ""
MySQL query returns a range of values, one of which is a null. The values are loaded into a PHP array, the string array is encoded in JSON, and then sent off to a Java app which massages the data and displays the results.
Java threw this error:
[code]
Caused by: org.json.JSONException: JSONObject["ContactName"] not a string.
at org.json.JSONObject.getString(JSONObject.java:639)
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So, I just simply convert all null values in the array to empty i.e "", but PHP did not convert nulls to "". Something wrong with my PHP codes, I think...
I'd like to handle this at the source, i.e. mySQL+PHP, rather than at the target i.e. Java.
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if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) {
/* instantiate an array to hold the JSON name-value pair objects */
$response = array();
/* In the loop, put data into array's name-value pair */
while($row=mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
array_push($response, array("Company_ID"=>$row[0], "CoyName"=>$row[1], "ContactName"=>$row[2]));
}
/* loop thru array, replace null with empty */
foreach ($response as $key => $value) {
if (is_null($value)) {
$response[$key] = "";
}
}
/* encode the data inside a JSON-array */
echo json_encode(array("db_response"=>$response));
} else {
$response = array("Error", "Message");
echo json_encode(array("db_response"=>$response));
};
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