How to count all rows when using SELECT with LIMIT in MySQL query?

Question

I\'ve got a mysql query like this:

SELECT A.ID, A.NAME, B.ID, B.NAME
FROM table1 A
JOIN table2 B ON ( A.ID = B.TABLE1_ID )
WHERE
    cond1, cond2, ..., condN         


        

Answer 1

Solution from http://is.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-num-rows.php#83647

SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS 
    '0', z.id
FROM 
    zoom AS z 
LIMIT 0,6 
UNION 
  SELECT 
    '1', FOUND_ROWS() 
ORDER BY `0` DESC , RAND()