Bizarre SQl, if issue....

[Mike At Spy]

Hey, I've got a weird issue. I have some code, an MySQL statement, that
returns an empty set, like this:

$person = mysql_query("Some Statement Here");

So, then I have an if/else statement:

if (!$person || $person == 0 || $person == '' || $person == '0') { $result =
1; }
else { $result = 4; }

If the SQL statement returns an empty set, shouldn't $result be equal to 1?
Instead, I'm getting $result = 4.

Hence all of the 'OR' conditions. I would have have thought !$person would
be enough.

Thanks for any input! :)

-Mike