SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS / FOUND_ROWS() does not work in PHP

Question

I use SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS in Mysql SELECT statement, to get the number of lines my SELECT would return without a LIMIT clause.

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Answer 1

I had the same issue. The solution was stupid, I was using $wpdb->query instead of $wpdb->get_var. So you want to do

$wpdb->get_var('select FOUND_ROWS()');

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