unable to ceil array - php

Question

I'm trying to do a pagination page with this tutorial, but keep getting errors.
Here is my code:
<?php include "common.php"; ?>
<?php
$query = "SELECT COUNT(id) FROM actiongame";
try
{
// These two statements run the query against your database table.
$stmt = $db->prepare($query);
$stmt->execute();
}
catch(PDOException $ex)
{
// Note: On a production website, you should not output $ex->getMessage().
// It may provide an attacker with helpful information about your code.
die("Failed to run query: " . $ex->getMessage());
}
$rows = $stmt->fetchAll();
foreach($rows as $row):
$total_records = $row;print_r($total_records);
//just to see what is the $total_records
// i get this reult with print_r : Array ( [COUNT(id)] => 2969 )
$total_pages = ceil($total_records / 48);
//but i get fatal error = =
//Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in C:\wamp\www\category.php on line
print_r($total_pages);
endforeach;
unset($row);
?>
My question is, how do I set the $total_records
to 2969 and use the ceil($total_record / 48)?
Here is my db connect script common.php code:
// These variables define the connection information for your MySQL database
$username = 'root';
$password = '';
$host = 'localhost';
$dbname = 'minigame';
// UTF-8 is a character encoding scheme that allows you to conveniently store
// a wide varienty of special characters, like ¢ or €, in your database.
// By passing the following $options array to the database connection code we
// are telling the MySQL server that we want to communicate with it using UTF-8
// See Wikipedia for more information on UTF-8:
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
$options = array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES utf8');
// A try/catch statement is a common method of error handling in object oriented code.
// First, PHP executes the code within the try block. If at any time it encounters an
// error while executing that code, it stops immediately and jumps down to the
// catch block. For more detailed information on exceptions and try/catch blocks:
// http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.exceptions.php
try
{
// This statement opens a connection to your database using the PDO library
// PDO is designed to provide a flexible interface between PHP and many
// different types of database servers. For more information on PDO:
// http://us2.php.net/manual/en/class.pdo.php
$db = new PDO("mysql:host={$host};dbname={$dbname};charset=utf8", $username, $password, $options);
}
catch(PDOException $ex)
{
// If an error occurs while opening a connection to your database, it will
// be trapped here. The script will output an error and stop executing.
// Note: On a production website, you should not output $ex->getMessage().
// It may provide an attacker with helpful information about your code
// (like your database username and password).
die("Failed to connect to the database: " . $ex->getMessage());
}
// This statement configures PDO to throw an exception when it encounters
// an error. This allows us to use try/catch blocks to trap database errors.
$db->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
// This statement configures PDO to return database rows from your database using an associative
// array. This means the array will have string indexes, where the string value
// represents the name of the column in your database.
$db->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE, PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
// This block of code is used to undo magic quotes. Magic quotes are a terrible
// feature that was removed from PHP as of PHP 5.4. However, older installations
// of PHP may still have magic quotes enabled and this code is necessary to
// prevent them from causing problems. For more information on magic quotes:
// http://php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.php
if(function_exists('get_magic_quotes_gpc') && get_magic_quotes_gpc())
{
function undo_magic_quotes_gpc(&$array)
{
foreach($array as &$value)
{
if(is_array($value))
{
undo_magic_quotes_gpc($value);
}
else
{
$value = stripslashes($value);
}
}
}
undo_magic_quotes_gpc($_POST);
undo_magic_quotes_gpc($_GET);
undo_magic_quotes_gpc($_COOKIE);
}
// This tells the web browser that your content is encoded using UTF-8
// and that it should submit content back to you using UTF-8
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
// This initializes a session. Sessions are used to store information about
// a visitor from one web page visit to the next. Unlike a cookie, the information is
// stored on the server-side and cannot be modified by the visitor. However,
// note that in most cases sessions do still use cookies and require the visitor
// to have cookies enabled. For more information about sessions:
// http://us.php.net/manual/en/book.session.php
session_start();
// Note that it is a good practice to NOT end your PHP files with a closing PHP tag.
// This prevents trailing newlines on the file from being included in your output,
// which can cause problems with redirecting users.

Answer 1

You're trying to ceil an array, you can do it on a numeric value.
Try editing your query like this:
$query = "SELECT COUNT(id) AS tot FROM actiongame";
And then your PHP code like this:
$total_records = $row['tot'];