Re: PDO user question

brandon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.php.database
Message-ID <[email protected]>
That's how I'd do it. Extend the PDO interface on your abstract class 
to include a "num_rows()" method that utilizes that higher level 
count($this->result). It might be a little more overhead... but RAM is 
cheap... and there's always forking/extending the library in C/C++...

-Brandon

On 2012-09-09 11:49, Michael Stowe wrote:
> How are you using the number?  Probably the easiest way is to utilize
> PDOStatement::FetchAll() and then do a count() on that result set.
>
> - Mike
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 9, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Stefan Wixfort <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jim
>>
>>> I've had some success with querying using pdo and prepared 
>>> statements as
>>> well.  One thing that I'm curious about is
>>>
>>> How does one handle the need to get the number of rows returned by 
>>> a
>>> Select?  The documentation is very clear that PDO doesn't return 
>>> that
>>> value for a Select statement (depending upon driver?) and there 
>>> were a
>>> couple of solutions that made no sense to me.  There was even one 
>>> that
>>> did a completely separate query just to get the row count which 
>>> makes
>>> even less sense.
>>
>> I believe you are referring to "SELECT COUNT(*)..."
>> Because I couldn't find a different way I use that.
>>
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