Row count with PDO

Question

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

Answer 1

This is super late, but I ran into the problem and I do this:

function countAll($table){
   $dbh = dbConnect();
   $sql = "select * from `$table`";

   $stmt = $dbh->prepare($sql);
    try { $stmt->execute();}
    catch(PDOException $e){echo $e->getMessage();}

return $stmt->rowCount();

It's really simple, and easy. :)