How to display empty months when grouping records by month

Question

Guys, I've got a recordset that successfully displays all
records in the
table grouped according to the month that the record was
created in.
This allows me to display a Monthly tally (a bit like a
barchart - where the
height of the column is derived by the qty of records for
that given month)
for each of the months in the year so far. However, it dawned
on me today
that if there was no activity in a given month, the month
simply doesn't
appear at all, rather than displaying but showing "0" as I
would prefer.
For example, the type of thing I want to display onscreen is:
Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
But let's say there were no records inserted in months June
to September
(inclusive), what I'm actually getting onscreen is:
Month 1 2 3 4 5 10 11 12
But what I actually want to appear onscreen is:
Month 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
I hope that makes some kind of sense...
I'm using Dreamweaver CS3, ASP/VBScript, and MySQL.
My current SQL Statement is as follows:
SELECT Count(AffiliateID) AS TotalClicks, MONTH(`VisitDate`)
AS Month
FROM tbl_affiliaterefferals
WHERE `AffiliateID` = "49" AND YEAR(`VisitDate`) =
YEAR(Now()) GROUP BY
MONTH(`VisitDate`)
ORDER BY MONTH(`VisitDate`) ASC
I figured one workaround would be to have 12 separate
recordsets - one for
each month - on the one page, but there must be a cleaner way
of doing it
surely?
Any/all help greatly appreciated.
Regards
David

Answer 1

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Hi Joe,
I've simply got a table, within one cell of which is another
table to which
I've applied a background colour and am specifying the height
of the <td>
cell as the qty of the number of records returned for Month 1
of the current
year. Then I'm applying a repeat region to the <TD>
cell containing the
table that varies in height, in order to force the table to
repeat
horizontally according to the number of records (months)
retrieved from the
database.
The code for the table is in the attached txt file.
I appreciate your time in responding however you must have
missed my
comments about what I'm working in as I'm working in
ASP/VBScript and
haven't the first clue when it comes to PHP.
I don't suppose you know or can point me in the direction of
an ASP
equivalent of your suggestion?
Regards
David
"Joe Makowiec" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> On 20 Oct 2008 in macromedia.dreamweaver, DTB-K wrote:
>
>> I figured one workaround would be to have 12
separate recordsets -
>> one for each month - on the one page, but there must
be a cleaner
>> way of doing it surely?
>
> Without seeing the code you're using to display it...
>
> Probably what that code is doing is looping through the
recordset:
>
> <?php do { ?>
> ...
> <?php } while ($row_dates =
mysql_fetch_assoc($dates)); ?>
>
> That's DW's standard PHP MySQL recordset behavior. What
you want to do
> is something more like:
>
> <?php
> for ($i=1;$i<13;$i++) { // Do 12 months
> echo '<p>Month: ';
> echo $i; //Echo the month
> if ($row_Recordset1['Month'] == $i) {
> // Have data for this month
> echo ' Clicks: ';
> echo $row_Recordset1['TotalClicks'];
> // Now get the next row
> // Note that we only want to get the next row if the
current month
> // has data. That's why the fetch command is inside the
if.
> $row_Recordset1= mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset1);
> } // End if
> echo "</p>\n";
> } // End for
> ?>
>
> --
> Joe Makowiec
>
http://makowiec.net/
> Email:
http://makowiec.net/contact.php
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<table border=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0"
cellspacing=3D"0">
<tr>
<td colspan=3D"2" valign=3D"bottom"><h1>Current
Year:</h1></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign=3D"bottom" =
class=3D"BodyTxtsml"><strong>Month</strong></td>
<%=20
While ((Repeat1__numRows <> 0) AND (NOT
Rs_MonthlyClicks.EOF))=20
%>
<%Dim TotalClicks, Cellheight
TotalClicks =3D =
FormatNumber((Rs_MonthlyClicks.Fields.Item("TotalClicks").Value),
0, -2, =
-2, -2)
Cellheight =3D (TotalClicks)
%> =20
<td valign=3D"bottom" class=3D"BodyTxtsml" =
title=3D"<%=3D(TotalClicks)%>"><div
align=3D"center"><table border=3D"0" =
cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0">
<tr>
<td height=3D"<%=3D(Cellheight)%>" =
bgcolor=3D"#003366" onMouseOver=3D"this.bgColor =3D
'#FFDB9D'" =
onMouseOut=3D"this.bgColor =3D'#003366'"
width=3D"40"> </td>
</tr>
=
</table><%=3D(Rs_MonthlyClicks.Fields.Item("Month").Value)%></div></td>
<%=20
Repeat1__index=3DRepeat1__index+1
Repeat1__numRows=3DRepeat1__numRows-1
Rs_MonthlyClicks.MoveNext()
Wend
%> =20
</tr>
</table>
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