Show Region (Recordset) Not working

I am pulling my hair out on this one and I am sure it is something simple, but just can't see it. I have added some Show If.. regions based on a recordset, but I cannot get it to display properly. I have attached a copy of my file, but the following are examples of the live results which as you can see don't work:

1) occupation_Detail.php?record_id=10 This should show under State/Territory Sponsorship Details: "No Sponsorships Currently Available" as the recordset is empty - but as you can see it doesn't and still shows the headers.

2) occupation_Detail.php?record_id=9 This is what is looks like when there is Data in the recordset - which is correct.

Hope you someone can see where I have gone wrong.

Jo

The problem is in the way you are creating your recordset, specifically the joins you are using.

have a look at the following for a good description the different joins that are available:
sql_join.asp

  Different SQL JOINs

Before we continue with examples, we will list the types of JOIN you can use, and the differences between them.

* JOIN: Return rows when there is at least one match in both tables
* LEFT JOIN: Return all rows from the left table, even if there are no matches in the right table
* RIGHT JOIN: Return all rows from the right table, even if there are no matches in the left table
* FULL JOIN: Return rows when there is a match in one of the tables  

Where you are using left joins in the query, it will still return data from the left tabel, even if there is match found on the right table,

because of this, the recordset is not empty, just the columns you are trying to output.

to double check this, take the query into the MySQL Querybrowser and run it there so you can see exactly what is being returned. The query being run is:

SELECT occupation.ASCOid     , asco.ASCO     , asco.maindesciption     , state.StateID, state.StateDescription     , stateoccvisajoin.StateOccVisaID     , stateoccvisajoin.V176     , stateoccvisajoin.V886     , stateoccvisajoin.V475     , stateoccvisajoin.V487 FROM Data4ma.asco     INNER JOIN Data4ma.occupation          ON (asco.AscoASCOid = occupation.ASCOid)     LEFT JOIN Data4ma.stateoccvisajoin          ON (stateoccvisajoin.SOVOccupationID = occupation.record_id)     LEFT JOIN Data4ma.state          ON (stateoccvisajoin.SOVStateID = state.StateID) WHERE occupation.record_id = 10 ORDER BY state.StateDescription ASC

Play around with the different join types in the MySQL Querybrowser to see how the effect the results you get.

Hi Jason

Thank you so much. Yes it was the joins. Have amended it and now works.

Thanks again

Jo