Prepared Statements - Number of Rows

Question

I\'m learning about prepared statements and trying to work with a query that yields multiple rows of results. Right now, I\'m just trying to figure out how to determine the

Answer 1

This works as of Feb 2020:

$number_of_records = $stmt->rowCount();
echo $number_of_records;

From php.net manual:

PDOStatement::rowCount() returns the number of rows affected by a DELETE, INSERT, or UPDATE statement.

Here is an example from their website:

prepare('DELETE FROM fruit');
$del->execute();

/* Return number of rows that were deleted */
print("Return number of rows that were deleted:\n");
$count = $del->rowCount();
print("Deleted $count rows.\n");
?>

The above example will output:

Return number of rows that were deleted:
Deleted 9 rows.