How to Get The Count or The Number Of Rows In A Result Set In PHP using ODBC Connection?

Question

While I build a web page in My PHP web application, My Connection works ok but When I want to get the count of rows of the SELECT Statement I used in my query, It gives me -

Answer 1

in php.net:

The easy way to count the rows in an odbc resultset where the driver returns -1 is to let SQL do the work: