Row count with PDO

Question

There are many conflicting statements around. What is the best way to get the row count using PDO in PHP? Before using PDO, I just simply used mysql_num_rows.

Answer 1

For straight queries where I want a specific row, and want to know if it was found, I use something like:

function fetchSpecificRow(&$myRecord) {
    $myRecord = array();
    $myQuery = "some sql...";
    $stmt = $this->prepare($myQuery);
    $stmt->execute(array($parm1, $parm2, ...));
    if ($myRecord = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)) return 0;
    return $myErrNum;
}