Question

How to get the number of rows from SQL query on MySQL with PHP Data Objects (PDO) in PHP

Answer 1

$db_host = 'localhost';
$db_user = 'user';
$db_password = 'password';
$db_name = 'database_name';
 
try
{
    $con = new PDO("mysql:host=".$db_host.";dbname=".$db_name, $db_user, $db_password);
}
catch(PDOException $e)
{
    echo "Connection failed: " . $e->getMessage();
}
 
$result = $con->query("SELECT * FROM table"); 

echo "number of rows = " . $result->rowCount();

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