I simply want to count the total number of rows I have in a table.
I will put this number in parenthesis at the right of the categories names in my website's sidebar.
In SQL
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM your_table
And from PHP
$result = mysql_query('SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM your_table');
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
$count = $row['count'];
Alternatively if you were to use PDO (without a prepared statement)
$count = (int) $pdo->query('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM your_table')->fetchColumn();
Then simply echo it
echo '(Rows: ' . $count . ')';
Or if you want to be fancy using printf
printf('(Rows: %d)', $count);
It's also possible to do this from PHP in another way using mysql_num_rows() function.
Example:
$result = mysql_query('SELECT id FROM your_table');
$count = mysql_num_rows($result);
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I'm trying to count the number of rows in a table and thought that this was the correct way to do that:
$result = $db->query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `table`;");
$count = $result->num_rows;
But counts always returns (int)1. If I use the same query in phpMyAdmin I get the right result. It sits in a table so I tried testing $count[0] as well, but that returns NULL.
What is the right way to do this?
You have to fetch that one record, it will contain the result of Count()
$result = $db->query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `table`");
$row = $result->fetch_row();
echo '#: ', $row[0];
Always try to do an associative fetch, that way you can easy get what you want in multiple case result
Here's an example
$result = $mysqli->query("SELECT COUNT(*) AS cityCount FROM myCity")
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
echo $row['cityCount']." rows in table myCity.";
I find this way more readable:
$result = $mysqli->query('select count(*) as `c` from `table`');
$count = $result->fetch_object()->c;
echo "there are {$count} rows in the table";
Not that I have anything against arrays...
$result->num_rows; only returns the number of row(s) affected by a query. When you are performing a count(*) on a table it only returns one row so you can not have an other result than 1.
$rowcount = 'SELECT COUNT(1) FROM (select * from isk.edi_site where postal_code = 123456)';
$stmt= oci_parse($conn, $rowcount);
oci_execute($stmt);
$num_row = oci_fetch_assoc($stmt);
$num = count($num_row, COUNT_RECURSIVE);
echo $num;
It counts and return the number "1". When I use the same SQL query in Oracle SQL developer, it echos out 4000+ count. Where would my mistake be? The column count works well..
A COUNT() query only returns a single row so you need to grab it from the oci_fetch_assoc() call. What you're doing is counting the rows in the result set which will always be 1.
$row = oci_fetch_assoc($stmt);
echo $row['COUNT(1)'];
Or give the count an alias:
SELECT COUNT(1) mycount FROM ...
$row = oci_fetch_assoc($stmt);
echo $row['MYCOUNT'];
I'm trying to count the number of rows in a table and thought that this was the correct way to do that:
$result = $db->query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `table`;");
$count = $result->num_rows;
But counts always returns (int)1. If I use the same query in phpMyAdmin I get the right result. It sits in a table so I tried testing $count[0] as well, but that returns NULL.
What is the right way to do this?
You have to fetch that one record, it will contain the result of Count()
$result = $db->query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `table`");
$row = $result->fetch_row();
echo '#: ', $row[0];
Always try to do an associative fetch, that way you can easy get what you want in multiple case result
Here's an example
$result = $mysqli->query("SELECT COUNT(*) AS cityCount FROM myCity")
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
echo $row['cityCount']." rows in table myCity.";
I find this way more readable:
$result = $mysqli->query('select count(*) as `c` from `table`');
$count = $result->fetch_object()->c;
echo "there are {$count} rows in the table";
Not that I have anything against arrays...
$result->num_rows; only returns the number of row(s) affected by a query. When you are performing a count(*) on a table it only returns one row so you can not have an other result than 1.
Pretty new to all this, so if I am going about my puzzle in a crazy way please tell me!
I have a table in a mySQL database with the columns title, hyperlink, imagelink
I want the php to select a row at random, then be able to save the title, hyperlink and imagelink as php variables. (so I can then output them into html)
so I could have for e.g
psuedoey code to get the idea
chosenNumber = randomNumber();
$chosenTitle = title[chosenNumber]
$chosenHyperlink = hyperlink[chosenNumber]
$chosenImagelink = imagelink[chosenNumber]
echo "<a href = $chosenTitle><img src= $chosenImagelink/> $chosenTitle </a>";
I think I need to use an assoc array like this here but I am very confused, because I looked through the various php mySQL fetch_assoc fetch_row etc and can't find which one to do what i need :(
What I have so far is
// database table name information
$number = "number";
$title = "title";
$hyperlink = "hyperlink";
$imagelink = "imagelink";
// sql to select all rows of adverts
$sql = "SELECT $number, $title, $hyperlink, $imagelink FROM $table";
//execute the sql
$data = mysql_query($sql, $link);
//count the number of rows in the table
$bannerCount = mysql_num_rows($data);
//generate a random number between 0 and the number of rows
$randomNumber = mt_rand(0, $bannerCount); //do I need to do bannerCount-1 or similar here?
$chosenNumber = $randomNumber;
//select data from a random row
First time post, be kind please, and thanks for any replies or explanations!
Using ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1 is a decent way to get a single row out of a smaller table. The downside to using this method is that RAND() must be calculated for every row in the table, and then a sort must be performed on this non-indexed value to calculate the row you want. As your table grows, ORDER BY RAND() becomes horribly inefficient. The better way to handle this is to first get a count of the number of rows in the table, calculate a random row number to read, and use the LIMIT [offest,] count option on your SQL query:
$sql = "SELECT COUNT(*) as rows FROM $table"
$res = mysql_query($sql);
if (!$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)) {
die('Error Checking Rows: '.mysql_error());
}
$rows = $row['rows'];
// now that we know how many rows we have, lets choose a random one:
$rownum = mt_rand(0, $rows-1);
$sql = "SELECT number, title, hyperlink, imagelink FROM $table LIMIT $rownum,1";
$res = mysql_query($sql);
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res);
// $row['number'] $row['title'] etc should be your "chosen" row
This first query asks the SQL Server how many rows are available, then LIMITs the result set of the actual query to only return 1 row, starting at the random number row we picked.
I think if you use the "limit" clause, it would be quite efficient:
SELECT number, title, hyperlink, imagelink FROM $table order by rand() limit 1
Why do you set up variables for the table name and field names?
If you want to get records randomly, you can simply modify your sql query and each time you will get random ordering of records, just add order by rand() to your query and limit clause if you want to get just one random record:
$sql = "SELECT $number, $title, $hyperlink, $imagelink FROM $table
order by rand() limit 1";
Once you have done that, you need to use functions like mysql_fetch_array or mysql_fetch_object to get the rows actually:
$data = mysql_query($sql, $link);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($data))
{
echo $row['title'] . '<br />';
echo $row['hyperlink'] . '<br />';
echo $row['imagelink'] . '<br />';
}
With:
$row = mysql_fetch_array($data)
You have $row array available at your disposal to echo values at any place of your page like:
echo $row['title'];
echo $row['hyperlink'];
echo $row['imagelink'];
I want to get the number of rows in my MySQL table and store that number in a php variable. This is the code I'm using:
$size = #mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM News");
$size ends up being "Resource ID #7." How do I put the number of rows directly into $size?
mysql_query returns a query resource id. In order to get values from it you need to use mysql_fetch_assoc on the resource id to fetch a row into an array.
$result = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM News");
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
$size = $row['COUNT(*)'];
You need to call mysql_fetch_row or one of its sister functions.
<?php
// untested
$result = #mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM News");
// error handling
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);
$count = $row[0];
?>
try the following:
$size = #mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) AS `total` FROM News");
$query = mysql_fetch_array($size);
echo $query['total'];
On a related note you can use the mysql_num_rows() function to obtain the number of rows from a given query. This is handy if you need to grab the data but also know the number of rows.
<?php
$result = #mysql_query("SELECT * FROM news");
$count = #mysql_num_rows($result);
?>