Row count with PDO

Question

There are many conflicting statements around. What is the best way to row count using PDO in PHP? Before using PDO, I just simply used mysql_num_rows.

fetchAll is something I won't want because I may sometimes be dealing with large datasets, so not good for my use.

Do you have any suggestions?

Answer 1

To use variables within the query, you can bindValue() or bindParam() To use variables within a query you have to use bindValue() or bindParam(). And do not concatenate the variables with " . $variable . "

$statement = "SELECT count(account_id) FROM account
                  WHERE email = ? AND is_email_confirmed;";
$preparedStatement = $this->postgreSqlHandler->prepare($statement);
$preparedStatement->bindValue(1, $account->getEmail());
$preparedStatement->execute();
$numberRows= $preparedStatement->fetchColumn();

GL

Answer 2

I tried $count = $stmt->rowCount(); with Oracle 11.2 and it did not work. I decided to used a for loop as show below.

   $count =  "";
    $stmt =  $conn->prepare($sql);
    $stmt->execute();
   echo "<table border='1'>\n";
   while($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_OBJ)) {
        $count++;
        echo "<tr>\n";
    foreach ($row as $item) {
    echo "<td class='td2'>".($item !== null ? htmlentities($item, ENT_QUOTES):"&nbsp;")."</td>\n";
        } //foreach ends
        }// while ends
        echo "</table>\n";
       //echo " no of rows : ". oci_num_rows($stmt);
       //equivalent in pdo::prepare statement
       echo "no.of rows :".$count;

Answer 3

when you make a COUNT(*) in your mysql statement like in

$q = $db->query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ...");

your mysql query is already counting the number of result why counting again in php? to get the result of your mysql

$q = $db->query("SELECT COUNT(*) as counted FROM ...");
$nb = $q->fetch(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);
$nb = $nb->counted;

and $nb will contain the integer you have counted with your mysql statement a bit long to write but fast to execute

Edit: sorry for the wrong post but as some example show query with count in, I was suggesting using the mysql result, but if you don't use the count in sql fetchAll() is efficient, if you save the result in a variable you won't loose a line.

$data = $dbh->query("SELECT * FROM ...");
$table = $data->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_OBJ);

count($table) will return the number of row and you can still use the result after like $row = $table[0] or using a foreach

foreach($table as $row){
  print $row->id;
}

Answer 4

This post is old but Getting row count in php with PDO is simple

$stmt = $db->query('SELECT * FROM table');
$row_count = $stmt->rowCount();

Answer 5

When it is matter of mysql how to count or get how many rows in a table with PHP PDO I use this

// count total number of rows
$query = "SELECT COUNT(*) as total_rows FROM sometable";
$stmt = $con->prepare($query);

// execute query
$stmt->execute();

// get total rows
$row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
$total_rows = $row['total_rows'];

credits goes to Mike @ codeofaninja.com

Answer 6

You can combine the best method into one line or function, and have the new query auto-generated for you:

function getRowCount($q){ 
    global $db;
    return $db->query(preg_replace('/SELECT [A-Za-z,]+ FROM /i','SELECT count(*) FROM ',$q))->fetchColumn();
}

$numRows = getRowCount($query);