Re: HOW do I return the results of a count to a variable

2001-11-01 Thread Paul DuBois
At 11:34 AM +0100 11/1/01, Harald Fuchs wrote: In article p05100345b8063ddb205a@[192.168.1.31], Paul DuBois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] 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()

Re: HOW do I return the results of a count to a variable

2001-10-31 Thread Paul DuBois
[snip] 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() Note that use of rows() to get the row count for a SELECT is deprecated in the DBI docs, which say that if you want to know the number of rows

Re: HOW do I return the results of a count to a variable

2001-10-30 Thread mickalo
Have you tried using the $rows = $sth-rows() after you execute to get the total rows returned? On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:43:00 +, Mark Worsdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to alter this statement so it returns the number of records. $prep = SELECT COUNT(*) FROM go.objectives WHERE

Re: HOW do I return the results of a count to a variable

2001-10-30 Thread Anne Shroeder
I'm new to this list, and new to mySQL but used SQL with DB2 years ago, so here goes my try at answering this: have you tried select count(*) as your_variable_name From etc .etc.etc. Anne - Original Message - From: Mark Worsdall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MySQL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: