CodeIgniter Active Record - Get number of returned rows

Question

I\'m very new to CodeIgniter and Active Record in particular, I know how to do this well in normal SQL but I\'m trying to learn.

How can I select some data from one

Answer 1

This is also a very useful function if you are looking for a rows or data with where condition affected

function num_rows($table)
    {   
       return $this->db->affected_rows($table);
    }

Answer 2

If you only need the number of rows in a query and don't need the actual row data, use count_all_results

echo $this->db
       ->where('active',1)
       ->count_all_results('table_name');

Answer 3

Just gotta read the docs son!

$query->num_rows();

Answer 4

$this->db->select('count(id) as rows');
$this->db->from('table_name');
$this->db->where('active',1);
$query = $this->db->get();
foreach($query->result() as $r)
{
   return $r->rows;
}

Answer 5

This goes to you model:

public function count_news_by_category($cat)
{
    return $this->db
        ->where('category', $cat)
        ->where('is_enabled', 1)
        ->count_all_results('news');
}

It'a an example from my current project.

According to benchmarking this query works faster than if you do the following:

$this->db->select('*')->from('news')->where(...); 
$q = $this->db->get(); 
return $q->num_rows();