Easy and dumb question!

[Sebastian]

Hi.

dumb question.

I am fetching some content (lets call it news) from mysql, i have two variables, one gets the title and the other gets the content. they are:

$content[morelink] = $row[11];
$content[moretext] = $row[12];

now, the problem is i have some html with the variables, and if there is nothing in the database i don't want it to still put in the html into the page,

so say i have $content[moretext] = $row[12] xyz; and there is nothing in $row[12] to display i don't want xyz to be include into the page.. hope this makes sense.

last question, what is the most accurate way to count words, not letters.. right now i am using str_word_count() but the results aren't very accurate, sometimes it reports 19 words and other times 20.

any suggestions?