How to count all records but only retrieve (LIMIT) a specific number for display?

Question

I want to echo only the first 10 rows, but I need to count the total number of rows affected by the query.

I was doing a LIMIT 10 and then counting with

Answer 1

You have to make 2 queries: the first one will count all rows, the second one will return 10 rows:

$count = 0;
$query = "SELECT count(*) as count FROM Badges WHERE UID = '$user'";
$rs = mysql_query($query);   

if (mysql_errno() == 0)
{
    $r = mysql_fetch_object($rs);
    $count = $r->count;
}

if ($count > 0)
{
    $query = "SELECT * FROM Badges WHERE UID = '$user' ORDER by Date DESC LIMIT 10";
    $rs = mysql_query($query);      

    if (mysql_errno() == 0)
    {            
        while ($r = mysql_fetch_array($rs))       
        {       
            echo $r['Site']; 
        }     
    }
}