将MySQL表回显到HTML表，显示空字段的文本

Question

I am echoing a MySQL table to HTML table, but some of my database fields are empty. When a database field is empty, how can I specify an alternate text (rather than it just showing blank?

The following works perfect (with blank cells):

<?php
include("../config.php");
$link = mysqli_connect("$db_host" , "$db_user" , "$db_password" , "$db");
mysqli_select_db($link, $db);

$result = mysqli_query($link,"SELECT * FROM the_table");

echo "<table border='1'>
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Email</th>
<th>Phone</th>
</tr>";

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>" . $row['name'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['email'] . "</td>";
echo "<td>" . $row['phone'] . "</td>";    
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";

?>

I think the answer should look something like this (but it doesn't work):

if (empty($row['name'])) {
       echo "<td>Not Specified</td>"; 
    } else { 
       echo "<td>" . $row['name'] . "</td>";
}

Suggestions?

Answer 1

I think this should work:

if ($row['name'] == null) {
       echo "<td>Not Specified</td>"; 
    } else { 
       echo "<td>" . $row['name'] . "</td>";
}