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

Whe can also do it using PDO :

$db = new PDO('', '', '')// your connection
$sql = "UPDATE tb_table SET rowname = value WHERE rowid = 1";
$query = $db->query($sql);
echo $query;