[wp-hackers] Testing for existence of WP_Query results

[Chris Scott]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Ade Walker<photofantaisie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This probably exposes my lack of PHP knowledge, and understanding of the
> WP_Query object, but I came across the following situation with a plugin of
> mine recently.
>
> In order to test that a WP_Query had actually found posts, I used this
> conditional check
>
> $recent = new WP_Query(args);
> if($recent) :
> while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();
> // rest of loop etc
>
> else :
> // do something else
>
> But I found that if($recent) nevers returns false, even if no posts are
> found.
>
> Is there a different way to test (before the while loop runs) that any posts
> were found by the query?

Try:

$recent = new WP_Query(args);
if($recent->have_posts()) :
while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();
...

if($recent) will always be true in your case because it is an object.

--
Chris Scott
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>
> I'm probably overlooking something blindingly obvious - but I just can't see
> it... :-/
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ade.
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