In message <p0510031bb805065122c6@[192.168.1.31]>, Paul DuBois
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>At 12:43 AM +0000 10/31/01, Mark Worsdall wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I want to alter this statement so it returns the number of records.
>>
>>$prep = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM go.objectives WHERE subjects_id='1' AND
>>subjectHeadings_id='2' ORDER BY displayOrder";
>>
>>$sth = $dbh->prepare($prep);
>>
>>$sth->execute;
>>
>>So what I need to do is add the COUNT statement into the above and
>>then return the number of records but how?
>
>That makes no sense to me. The statement already includes COUNT(*) and
>thus returns the number of rows that match the conditions in the WHERE
>clause. (By the way, the ORDER BY is completely superfluous, because
>the query returns only one row anyway.)
>
>However, in the code shown above, all you've done is execute the query.
>You haven't fetched the result. This should do it:
>
>$count = $sth->fetchrow_array();
>
>You could do this in a single step:
>
>$count = $dbh->selectrow_array (
> "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM go.objectives WHERE subjects_id='1' AND
> subjectHeadings_id='2' ORDER BY displayOrder");
>
Of all the methods suggested I like the look of the one above and will
try that one first.
$count = $sth->fetchrow_array();
$rows = $sth->rows()
$count = $dbh->selectrow_array (
"SELECT COUNT(*) FROM go.objectives WHERE subjects_id='1' AND
subjectHeadings_id='2'");
Thankyou all.
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