Got it, Thanks to all of your replies! W.D.F. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cal Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Walter D. Funk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:44 AM Subject: RE: Calculating rows in a result set
> Not without actually performing SOME kind of query. You could > > select count(*) from... > > and insert the rest of your query there. This would give you the count. > Then store this in a session variable (PHP) for subsequent pages. > > Most of the time though, I just put a NEXT button. ADODB has some great > pagination tools to make this stuff easy. > > =C= > > * > * Cal Evans > * The Virtual CIO > * http://www.calevans.com > * > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Walter D. Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 9:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Calculating rows in a result set > > > Hi everybody, > > is there a way to calculate the number of rows retrieved by a mysql query, > without actually performing it? > > I want to make a paginated result like in most search engines, and for that > I need to display the number of pages > the result would have, but I do not want to actually retrieve all the rows > to be able to count them, because this is > a loss of performance, in particular if the result set retrieves 100000 rows > and 100 people make a search; this would > end in 10000 x 100 rows just to say how many pages the result will have, I > think there must be a better way to do it, isn't it? > > thanks to everybody in advance > W.D.F. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
