yeah, it would help if I read the whole post. Sorry. 

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 9:06 am, Dwight Altman wrote:
> I suppose you could use "count( PDOStatement::fetchAll() )", but I
> understand your amazement.
>
> mysql_num_rows() is specific to MySQL.  He wants a PDO version.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Micah Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 10:51 AM
> To: php-db@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] [PDO] Number of rows found by Select
>
>
>
> mysql_num_rows()
>
> On Tuesday 08 November 2005 5:17 am, Rob C wrote:
> > What is the recommended way to find the number of rows found by a SELECT
> >   query? PDOStatement::rowCount() doesn't work with MySQL and is a bit
> > of a hack anyway. Doing a COUNT(*) before the SELECT is very hackish -
> > the data could have changed and it's an extra query. What is there
> > that's better than either of these? Is there any way to use COUNT(*)
> > without risking data change, such as inside a transaction?
> >
> > I'm amazed that there is no mysql_num_rows() equivilent, I get the
> > feeling that I'm missing something obvious. I can only presume there is
> > some technical limitation that I'm not appreciating, if anyone can shed
> > some light on this, I'd like to know.
> >
> > I'm new to both PDO and this mailing list, so please be gentle with me.
> > I'm using PDO 1.0RC2, PHP 5.0.5 and MySQL 4.1.15.
> >
> > Rob
>
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