How to execute two mysql queries as one in PHP/MYSQL?

Question

I have two queries, as following:

SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS Id, Name FROM my_table WHERE Name LIKE \'%prashant%\' LIMIT 0, 10;
SELECT FOUND_ROWS();
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Answer 1

It says on the PHP site that multiple queries are NOT permitted (EDIT: This is only true for the mysql extension. mysqli and PDO allow multiple queries) . So you can't do it in PHP, BUT, why can't you just execute that query in another mysql_query call, (like Jon's example)? It should still give you the correct result if you use the same connection. Also, mysql_num_rows may help also.

Answer 2

You'll have to use the MySQLi extension if you don't want to execute a query twice:

if (mysqli_multi_query($link, $query))
{
    $result1 = mysqli_store_result($link);
    $result2 = null;

    if (mysqli_more_results($link))
    {
        mysqli_next_result($link);
        $result2 = mysqli_store_result($link);
    }

    // do something with both result sets.

    if ($result1)
        mysqli_free_result($result1);

    if ($result2)
        mysqli_free_result($result2);
}