Work-around for PHP5's PDO rowCount MySQL issue

Question

I\'ve recently started work on a new project using PHP5 and want to use their PDO classes for it. The problem is that the MySQL PDO Driver doesn\'t support rowCount() so the

Answer 1

You can issue a SELECT FOUND_ROWS() query right after the original SELECT query to get row count.

$pdo->query("SELECT * FROM users");
$foundRows = $pdo->query("SELECT FOUND_ROWS()")->fetchColumn();

See also: MySQL Docs on FOUND_ROWS()