Re: [PHP] counting number of records in a MySQL table; how do I get the result?

$result = mysql_query(); if (mysql_num_rows($result) $x) -Kevin - Original Message - From: DonPro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 2:35 PM Subject: [PHP] counting number of records in a MySQL table; how do I get the result? Hi, I

RE: [PHP] counting number of records in a MySQL table; how do I get the result?

$result = mysql_query(); if (mysql_num_rows($result) $x) -Kevin This won't work because a SELECT COUNT(*) query always returns a row, even if it returns zero as the value. $result = mysql_query(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ... ); $count = mysql_result($result,0); ---John Holmes... - Original

Re: [PHP] counting number of records in a MySQL table; how do I get the result?

so why not take that resulting row, and then do an if on it to see if the value is a zero? an extra step, but it would work John W. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 002c01c26a66$61f0e1a0$7c02a8c0@coconut">news:002c01c26a66$61f0e1a0$7c02a8c0@coconut... $result = mysql_query(); if