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

function count_x($connect) {  
 $query = "  SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE id = '0' ";  
 $statement = $connect->prepare($query);  $statement->execute();  
 $total_rows = $statement->rowCount();  
 return $total_rows; 
}