There's got to be a better way to go about this: I am constantly doing mysql
queries where I am doing
a count(), so a sample query would be like this: "select count(*) from
database". I'm expecting only
ONE value back exactly, and that's the count results. However, to get this
data into a variable, i'm
having to write code like this:
$result = mysql_query("select count(*) from database", $db);
$myrow = mysql_fetch_row($result);
$staticvar += $myrow[0];
$staticvar will never be an array, it's just a simple variable storing a
number. I *could* do it like this:
$result = mysql_query("select * from database", $db);
$staticvar += mysql_num_rows($result);
However, the mysql query will be much, much slower if I do it like this.
Basically, what I'm asking, is how to do something like:
$staticvar += mysql_fetch_row($result);
I want to eliminate step two, and I don't want to involve any temporary
arrays when there's always just one
value. Any suggestions? Thanks a bunch!
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