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

You can combine the best method into one line or function, and have the new query auto-generated for you:

function getRowCount($q){ 
    global $db;
    return $db->query(preg_replace('/SELECT [A-Za-z,]+ FROM /i','SELECT count(*) FROM ',$q))->fetchColumn();
}

$numRows = getRowCount($query);