mysql返回empty,MySQL返回一个空字段：CONCAT（nonEmpty1，empty2，nonEmpty3）= NULL

I have PHP 5 code accessing a MyISAM table on MySQL 5 server. The query looks like this:

SELECT CONCAT(fName1,' ',mName2,' ',lName3) AS userName

FROM users

WHERE level > 10

When there's no mName filled in, I am expecting output like "fname lname" , but I'm getting "" (empty string) instead (the number of rows returned is correct). Where am I making a mistake?

PHP code:

$result = mysql_query($the_above_query);

while ($result_row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {

// do stuff with the name

// except I'm getting empty strings in $result_row['userName']

}

Relevant part of table structure:

CREATE TABLE users {

/* -snip- */

`fName1` varchar(50) default NULL,

`mName2` varchar(50) default NULL,

`lName3` varchar(50) default NULL,

`level` int(11) default 0,

/* -snip- */

} ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

(also, is this way (column concatenation in MySQL) a good idea, or should I fetch the columns to PHP and join them there?)

Turns out that I was getting back a NULL; PHP treats a returned NULL and empty string("") similarly, you'd have to compare with === to see the difference.

解决方案

[23 May 2003 4:32] Alexander Keremidarski

Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not

a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at

http://www.mysql.com/documentation/ and the instructions on

how to report a bug at http://bugs.mysql.com/how-to-report.php

This is doccumented behaviour of CONCAT() function.

From Manual chapter 6.3.2 String Functions

CONCAT(str1,str2,...)

Returns the string that results from concatenating the arguments. Returns NULL if any

argument is NULL

Use CONCAT_WS() instead or wrap NULLable paremeters with IFNULL() function.