Re: Retrieving result of COUNT(*) with PHP
Frank Bax <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.db.postgresql.php |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
At 03:16 PM 3/28/07, Lynna Landstreet wrote:
>I'm trying to use a SELECT COUNT(*) to count how many results would be
>retrieved from a particular query (as part of the process of paginating
>search results).
>
>But I'm having trouble figuring out how to retrieve the result of the
>count in PHP.
Why not simply run your query and then call pg_numrows( ) ?
You didn't show us any php code - this works..
$res = pg_query( $dbc, 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM payperiod');
$val = pg_fetch_result( $res, 0, 0 );
var_dump ($val );
might output something like
string(3) "205"
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