----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Israel" 

On Oct 12, 2008, at 6:31 PM, <listgroups08> wrote:
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Try:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Assignments, Classes, Instructors, Departments  
WHERE Assignments.ClassID = Classes.ClassID AND
Classes.DepartmentID = Departments.DepartmentID AND  
Classes.InstructorID = Instructors.InstructorID

What gets returned is one row with one field (You have to read  
that...   calling mysql_num_rows() will return 1)

-D. Israel
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Thanks Daniel,

I just used - 
$query = str_replace('*', 'COUNT(*)', $query)

before I added the LIMIT and ORDER BY instructions and it works perfectly. 

Robert.

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