A good way to check if the result set is empty is to do put all statements 
that work on the result set in an if-statement with the following condition:

if (mysql_numrows($result) != 0)
{
         ... code here ...
}

Hope this helps

DevilKin

At 14:54 21/08/2001 +0100, Seb Frost wrote:
>Basically I want to check to see if $fileDir is already in my database.  I
>do this as:
>
>                 $result = mysql_query("SELECT fileDir FROM shoots WHERE
>(fileDir='$fileDir')");
>
>How do I check the result?  I normally use
>
>                 mysql_result($result, $row, $field)
>
>to read my result, but if I try that I get an error:
>
>                 if(mysql_result($result, $row, $field))
>
>gives me:
>
>                 Warning: Unable to jump to row 0 on MySQL result index 3
>
>
>cheers,
>
>- seb
>
>
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