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

I tried $count = $stmt->rowCount(); with Oracle 11.2 and it did not work. I decided to used a for loop as show below.

   $count =  "";
    $stmt =  $conn->prepare($sql);
    $stmt->execute();
   echo "\n";
   while($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_OBJ)) {
        $count++;
        echo "\n";
    foreach ($row as $item) {
    echo "\n";
        } //foreach ends
        }// while ends
        echo "
".($item !== null ? htmlentities($item, ENT_QUOTES):" ")."
\n";
       //echo " no of rows : ". oci_num_rows($stmt);
       //equivalent in pdo::prepare statement
       echo "no.of rows :".$count;