how to count the total comment

Question

I want to count the total comment/post posted on my page. i have a table in my database named test. within table i have a column named comment, where every post is been stored.

Answer 1

Try this:

list($count) = mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query("select count(*) from `test`"));
echo $count;

Alternatively, if you are already running a query to get some comments, you can try this:

$sql = mysql_query("select sql_calc_found_rows * from `test` order by `id` desc limit 10");
// ^ Get the 10 most recent comments
list($count) = mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query("select found_rows()"));
// this avoids having to run the entire query again, great for efficiency!
while($comment = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql)) var_dump($comment); // just an example