PHP 7.0.6 Released

pg_num_rows

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5, PHP 7)

pg_num_rowsReturns the number of rows in a result

Description

int pg_num_rows ( resource $result )

pg_num_rows() will return the number of rows in a PostgreSQL result resource.

Note:

This function used to be called pg_numrows().

Parameters

result

PostgreSQL query result resource, returned by pg_query(), pg_query_params() or pg_execute() (among others).

Return Values

The number of rows in the result. On error, -1 is returned.

Examples

Example #1 pg_num_rows() example

<?php
$result 
pg_query($conn"SELECT 1");

$rows pg_num_rows($result);

echo 
$rows " row(s) returned.\n";
?>

The above example will output:

1 row(s) returned.

See Also

User Contributed Notes

strata_ranger at hotmail dot com
6 years ago
As mentioned, if you are performing an INSERT/UPDATE or DELETE query and want to know the # of rows affected, you should use pg_affected_rows() instead of pg_num_rows().

However, you can also exploit postgres's RETURNING clause in your query to auto-select columns from the affected rows.  This has the advantage of being able to tell not only how many rows a query affects, but exactly which rows those were, especially if you return a primary-key column.

For example:

<?php

// Example query.  Let's say that this updates five rows in the source table.
$res = pg_query("Update foo set bar = 'new data' where foo.bar = 'old data' ");
pg_num_rows($res); // 0
pg_affected_rows($res); // 5
pg_fetch_all($res); // FALSE

// Same query, with a RETURNING clause.
$res = pg_query("Update foo set bar = 'new data' where foo.bar = 'old data' RETURNING foo.pkey");
pg_num_rows($res); // 5
pg_affected_rows($res); // 5
pg_fetch_all($res); // Multidimensional array corresponding to our affected rows & returned columns
?>
ElDiablo
7 years ago
About preceding note, you shouldn't use pg_num_rows() for this.
You should have instead a look at pg_affected_rows().
francisco at natserv dot com
8 years ago
Not sure why this documentation doesn't have the following note:
Note: Use pg_affected_rows() to get number of rows affected by INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE query.

Found on other resources. Adding here in case someone else is looking for the info.
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