can do another way
$sql = "select count(fieldname) from Products";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
$myrow=$mysql_fetch_row($result);
$countrows = $myrow[0]; ( or might be $myrow[1] check out)
will do the job
/sagar
----- Original Message -----
From: David Robley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Kevin P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 6:06 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Count
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:16, Kevin P wrote:
> > Hi
> > I have counted some rows in MySQL and I need to know how to pull out
> > the number of rows.
> > "SELECT COUNT(*) AS myCount FROM Products"
> >
> > Thanks
> > Kevin
>
> $query = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS myCount FROM Products";
> $result = mysql_db_query($database, $query);
> $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
> extract($row);
> echo $myCount;
>
> might do the trick; unless I've left a syntax error in there :-)
>
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