PHP mysqli_num_rows () function

PHP MySQLi Reference Manual

Returns the number of rows in the result set:

<?php 
// 假定数据库用户名：root，密码：123456，数据库：w3big 
$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","123456","w3big"); 
if (mysqli_connect_errno($con)) 
{ 
    echo "连接 MySQL 失败: " . mysqli_connect_error(); 
} 

$sql = "SELECT name,url FROM websites ORDER BY alexa;";

if ($result=mysqli_query($con,$sql))
{
	// 返回记录数
	$rowcount=mysqli_num_rows($result);
	printf("总共返回 %d 行数据。",$rowcount);
	// 释放结果集
	mysqli_free_result($result);
}


mysqli_close($con);
?>

Definition and Usage

mysqli_num_rows () function returns the number of rows in the result set.

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