What is the best MySQL command to count the total number of rows in a table without any conditions applied to it? I'm doing this through php, so maybe there is a php function which …

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Oct 20, 2010 · Both are used to count elements in a array. sizeof () function is an alias of count () function used in PHP. However, count () function is faster and better than sizeof ().

50 Using PHP, how can I get the total number of rows that are in a CSV file? I'm using this method but cannot get it to work properly.

154 If you just want to find out the number of elements in an array, use count. Now, to answer your question... How to calculate how many items in a foreach?

In PHP 5.6 the array_count_values() version is faster for arrays with less different elements. All in all both functions are quite fast (at least for the arrays I was testing)

The problem is that count is intended to count the indexes in an array, not the properties on an object, (unless it's a custom object that implements the Countable interface).

will there always be an index for type in each element in the array? and do you want to count all of them or just those with a value higher than zero?

php.net gives the following warning for count though : count () may return 0 for a variable that isn't set, but it may also return 0 for a variable that has been initialized with an empty array.

Getting total rows in a query result... You could just iterate the result and count them. You don't say what language or client library you are using, but the API does provide a mysql_num_rows …