<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >mysql_num_rows</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="MySQL Functions" HREF="ref.mysql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="mysql_num_fields" HREF="function.mysql-num-fields.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="mysql_pconnect" HREF="function.mysql-pconnect.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-num-fields.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mysql-pconnect.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.mysql-num-rows" ></A >mysql_num_rows</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN59275" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >mysql_num_rows -- Get number of rows in result</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN59278" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >int <B CLASS="methodname" >mysql_num_rows</B > ( resource result)<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mysql_num_rows()</B > returns the number of rows in a result set. This command is only valid for SELECT statements. To retrieve the number of rows affected by a INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE query, use <A HREF="function.mysql-affected-rows.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_affected_rows()</B ></A >. <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN59289" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >mysql_num_rows()</B > example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $link = mysql_connect("localhost", "mysql_user", "mysql_password"); mysql_select_db("database", $link); $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table1", $link); $num_rows = mysql_num_rows($result); echo "$num_rows Rows\n"; ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > If you use <A HREF="function.mysql-unbuffered-query.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_unbuffered_query()</B ></A >, <B CLASS="function" >mysql_num_rows()</B > will not return the correct value until all the rows in the result set have been retrieved. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > See also: <A HREF="function.mysql-affected-rows.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_affected_rows()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.mysql-connect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_connect()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.mysql-data-seek.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_data_seek()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.mysql-select-db.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_select_db()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.mysql-query.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mysql_query()</B ></A >. </P ><P > For downward compatibility <B CLASS="function" >mysql_numrows()</B > can also be used. This is deprecated however. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-num-fields.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mysql-pconnect.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >mysql_num_fields</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.mysql.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >mysql_pconnect</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >