0 not considered valid alternate or empty text

Backporting this fix to Views 2 did not solve the issue for me.

render()ing the values means that $this->last_render has a string '0' instead of an int 0 -- need to test for this:

-      if ($this->last_render !== 0 || !empty($this->options['empty_zero'])) {
+      if (($this->last_render !== 0 && $this->last_render !== '0') || !empty($this->options['empty_zero'])) {

Patch for 2.x-dev attached. I'm not sure whether this change is necessary for 3.x-dev as well.

btw, #559102: Views thinks that a 0 value is empty even when the box 'Count the number 0 as empty' is unchecked... looks to be a dup of this issue, where folks are still experiencing the issue, (as I was.)

I have been posting in the other thread #559102: Views thinks that a 0 value is empty even when the box 'Count the number 0 as empty' is unchecked... and I am glad that someone has some ideas here.

I tested this patch on my machine and I do not thing that it worked. Note that I am using it on views 2.7.

I will post any results here

I'm having the same issue- applied the patch and it didn't fix the problem. I'll keep looking into it and post what I find.

Need to verify this but when you apply the patch to 6.2.8 I get a whitescreen....

That and Views 2.8 still does not display '0' at all when this patch is applied (properly as well... for some reason I did not apply it properly hence the whitescreen).

Patch in #4 looks correct to me, and it does fix the issues I can reproduce. If there are issues that it does not fix, they might be separate, but I don't know how to recreate them to test. I have committed it to all branches.

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I have just run into this same issue and the patch did not fix the problem I had.

I have a table view with CCK fields. One of the CCK text fields is sometimes empty. So I set the Empty text option, but it was not displaying the empty text.

After some investigation I found that because I also had the Link this field to its node option set the empty field was rendering empty links.

EG:
<a href="node/115"></a>

When I set the Hide if empty then only does the empty text get displayed.

Is this by design? The way I understand stood things, the un-rendered field is what should be checked for being empty and the hide if empty options remove the field from the display (Label and all, if possible) if empty.

If I understand things correctly maybe the render_text function should also check for empty text.
Hope that all makes sense.

Empty links seems like a different issue than not accepting 0 as empty. Call me crazy.

I also have an issue like this. I have matches and when there is no score there is nothing stored in the database. But for some reason views show 0 instead of empty. I want it to show 0 when there is a 0 in the database and nothing when there is nothing in the database. Can anyone tell me how to fix this please?

This has been closed twice; it's a different issue if there's still a problem.