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How to check if a database query will return results?

Our website uses Perl to provide a simple mechanism for our HR staff to post vacancies on our website. It was developed by a third party, but they have long been thrilled, and unfortunately, we do not have Perl skills within the company. This is what happens when marketing people go around their own IT team!

I need to make a simple change for this application. Currently, the vacancy page says: "We currently have the following vacancies:", regardless of the availability of vacancies! Therefore, we want to change it so that this line is displayed only at the corresponding time points.

I could obviously start learning a little Perl, but we are already planning on replacing the site, and, of course, it will not use Perl. Therefore, since the solution will be trivial for those who have these skills, I thought I would ask for help.

The following is the procedure for listing vacancies.

sub list {
  require HTTP::Date;
  import HTTP::Date;

  my $date = [split /\s+/, HTTP::Date::time2iso(time())]->[0];

  my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $password)
    || die "cannot connect to $database: $!\n";

  my $sql = <<EOSQL;
SELECT * FROM $table where expiry >= '$date' order by expiry
EOSQL

  my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
  $sth->execute();


  while (my $ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref()) {
    my $temp  = $template;
    $temp     =~ s#__TITLE__#$ref->{'title'}#;

    my $job_spec = $ref->{'job_spec'};

...etc...

Key line while (my $ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref()) {. I believe this says "so far I can remove another job from the returned record set ...". If I put my print statement before this line, it will always be displayed; after this line, and this was repeated for each vacancy.

How to determine that there are some vacancies that need to be displayed without prematurely moving around the returned recordset?

while if() ( while), . If any records then print "We currently have.." line. , .

, , , !

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:

$sth->execute();

my $first = 1;
while (my $ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref()) {
    if( $first ) {
        print "We currently have the following vacancies:\n";
        $first = 0;
    }
    my $temp  = $template;
    ...
}
if( $first ) {
    print "No vacancies found\n";
}
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Perl, , , , . :

  • , "select count (*)", , ,
  • , , .

, :

my @results = ();
while (my $ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref()) {
   push @results, $ref;
}

if ($#results == 0) {
  ... no results
} else {
  foreach $ref (@results) {
    my $temp = $template;
    ....
 }
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Mysql, "rows" :

$sth->execute();

if($sth->rows) {
  print "We have data!\n";
}

while(my $ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref()) {
...
}

"perldoc DBI". "perldoc".

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, Graeme, :

$sth->execute();

my $ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref();
if ($ref) {
  print "We currently have the following vacancies:\n";
  while ($ref) {
    my $temp  = $template;
    ...
    $ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref();
  }
} else {
    print "No vacancies found\n";
}
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( ), , ( , ), :

my $output = '';

, :

$output .= "whatever we would have printed";

:

if ($output eq '')
{
  print 'We have no vacancies.';
}
else
{
  print "We currently have the following vacancies:\n" . $output;
}
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.. - :

# count the vacancies    
$numinfo = $dbh->prepare("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $table WHERE EXPIRY >= ?");
$numinfo->execute($date);
$count = $numinfo->fetchrow_arrayref()->[0];

# print a message
my $msg = '';
if   ($count == 0) $msg = 'We do not have any vacancies right now';
else               $msg = 'We have the following vacancies';
print($msg);
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use Lingua::EN::Inflect 'PL';

$sth->execute();
my $results = $sth->fetchall_arrayref( {}, $max_rows );

if (@$results) {
    print "We currently have the following ", PL("vacancy",scalar @$results), ":\n";

    for my $ref (@$results) {
        ...
    }
}
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SELECT, rows , execute.

, (.. ) , ... - :

# Retrieve how many vacancies are currently offered:
my $query = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS rows FROM $table WHERE expiry >= ?";
$sth = $dbh->prepare($query);
$sth->execute($date);
$numVacancies = $numinfo->fetchrow_arrayref()->[0];

# Debug:
print "Number of vacancies: " . $numVacancies . "\n";

if ( $numVacancies == 0 ) { # no vacancy found...
    print "No vacancies found!\n";
}
else { # at least a vacancy has been found...
    print "We currently have the following vacancies:\n";

    # Retrieve the vacancies:
    my $sql = "SELECT * FROM $table where expiry >= '$date' ORDER BY expiry";
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
    $sth->execute();

    ...
}

, , "" "" , "fetchrow_array", , selectrow_array:

# Retrieve how many vacancies are currently offered:
my $query = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS rows FROM $table WHERE expiry >= ?"; 
my $numVacancies = $dbh->selectrow_array($query, undef, $date);

# Debug:
print "Number of vacancies: " . $numVacancies . "\n";

selectall_arrayref:

# Retrieve how many vacancies are currently offered:
my $query = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS rows FROM $table WHERE expiry >= ?";
my $numVacancies = $dbh->selectall_arrayref($query, {Slice => {}}, $date);

# Debug:
print "Number of vacancies: " . @$numVacancies[0]->{rows} . "\n";

, selectrow_array selectall_arrayref, :

# Retrieve the vacancies:
my $sql = "SELECT * FROM $table where expiry >= ? ORDER BY expiry";
my $vacancies = $dbh->selectall_arrayref($sql, {Slice => {}}, $date);

# Debug:
print "Number of vacancies: " . scalar @{$vacancies} . "\n";
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perldoc DBI:

 For a non-"SELECT" statement, "execute" returns the number of rows
 affected, if known. If no rows were affected, then "execute"
 returns "0E0", which Perl will treat as 0 but will regard as true.

, $sth- > execute():

 my $returnval = $sth->execute;
 if (defined $returnval && $returnval == 0) {
     carp "Query executed successfully but returned nothing";
     return;
 }
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