select count(*) from table of mysql in php

I am able to get both the value and row of the mysql query result.

But I am struggling to get the single output of a query. e.g.:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Students;");

I need the result to display. But I am not getting the result.

I have tried with the following methods:

1. mysql_fetch_assoc()
2. mysql_free_result()
3. mysql_fetch_row()

But I didn't succeed to display (get) the actual value.

 Answers

You need to alias the aggregate using the as keyword in order to call it from mysql_fetch_assoc

$result=mysql_query("SELECT count(*) as total from Students");
$data=mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
echo $data['total'];

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$result = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count` FROM `Students`");
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
$count = $row['count'];

Try this code.

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$num_result = mysql_query("SELECT count(*) as total_count from Students ") or exit(mysql_error());
$row = mysql_fetch_object($num_result);
echo $row->total_count;

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I think it's better answer.

$query = "SELECT count(*) AS total FROM table_name"; 
mysql_select_db('database_name');
$result = mysql_query($query); 
$values = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); 
$num_rows = $values['total']; 
echo $num_rows;

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you can as well use this and upgrade to mysqli_ (stop using mysql_* extension...)

$result = mysqli_query($conn, "SELECT COUNT(*) AS `count` FROM `Students`");
$row = mysqli_fetch_array($result);
$count = $row['count'];
echo'$count';

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With mysql v5.7.20, here is how I was able to get the row count from a table using PHP v7.0.22:

$query = "select count(*) from bigtable";
$qresult = mysqli_query($this->conn, $query);
$row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($qresult);
$count = $row["count(*)"];
echo $count;

The third line will return a structure that looks like this:

array(1) {
   ["count(*)"]=>string(4) "1570"
}

In which case the ending echo statement will return:

1570

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here is the code for showing no of rows in table with php

`<?php
$sql="select count(*) as total from student_table;";
$result=mysqli_query($con,$sql);
$data=mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);
echo $data['total'];
?>`