What's wrong with
$number=mysql_num_rows($result);
echo "The total number of rows is $number";
----- Original Message -----
From: Julie Meloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Paulson, Joseph V. "Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:17 AM
Subject: [PHP] Re: [PHP-DB] Easy MySQL question
> Paulson, Joseph V. \"Jay\" wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone--
> > I've got a easy question that I can't seem to answer for myself. I'm
> > running a query in MySQL and want to know how many entries are in a
table
> > and then echo that out onto a page. I thought this would be easy but I
> > don't know why it's not working. Anyway, here's what I am doing:
> >
> > (open db connection)
> >
> > $query = "SELECT count(*) FROM Movie";
> > $result = mysql_query($sql, $dbLink);
> > $myrow = mysql_result($result);
> > echo $myrow;
> >
>
> $myrow = mysql_result($result,0,"count(*)");
>
>
>
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