Re: Retrieving result of COUNT(*) with PHP

[Frank Bax <fbax(at)sympatico(dot)ca>]

At 03:16 PM 3/28/07, Lynna Landstreet wrote:
> I'm trying to use a SELECT COUNT(*) to count how many results would be
> retrieved from a particular query (as part of the process of paginating
> search results).
>
> But I'm having trouble figuring out how to retrieve the result of the 
> count in PHP.


Why not simply run your query and then call pg_numrows( )  ?

You didn't show us any php code - this works..

  $res = pg_query( $dbc, 'SELECT COUNT(*)  FROM payperiod');
  $val = pg_fetch_result( $res, 0, 0 );
  var_dump ($val );

might output something like

string(3) "205"