Julie Meloni wrote:
> Paulson, Joseph V. \"Jay\" wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone--
> > I've got a easy question that I can't seem to answer for myself. I'm
> > running a query in MySQL and want to know how many entries are in a table
> > and then echo that out onto a page. I thought this would be easy but I
> > don't know why it's not working. Anyway, here's what I am doing:
> >
> > (open db connection)
> >
> > $query = "SELECT count(*) FROM Movie";
> > $result = mysql_query($sql, $dbLink);
> > $myrow = mysql_result($result);
> > echo $myrow;
> >
>
> $myrow = mysql_result($result,0,"count(*)");
>
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Shouldn't this be $query also?
$query = "SELECT count(*) FROM Movie";
$result = mysql_query(****$sql****, $dbLink);
$myrow = mysql_result($result);
echo $myrow;
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