PHP/mysql get number of affected rows of UPDATE statement

Question

With php/mysql how can i get the number of rows that a query affected?

what i tried so far:

$result = mysql_query($q);
mysql_num_rows($result);
         


        

Answer 1

clamp,

you need to supply a resource to mysql_affected_rows, not a result record. See the links that the others have posted for additional information.

$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');
$result = mysql_query($q);
echo mysql_affected_rows($link);