I am trying to make ONE dynamic function for count in mysql:
functions.php:
function countEntries($table, $where = '', $what = '')
{
if (!empty($where) && isset($what)) {
$q = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM " . $table . " WHERE " . $where . " = '" . $what . "' LIMIT 1";
} else{
$q = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM " . $table . " LIMIT 1";
}
$record = query($q);
$total = fetchrow($record);
return $total[0];
}
HTML Code:
<?php echo countEntries("news", "category", "1"); ?>
<?php echo countEntries("post", "type", "Sports"); ?>
But still got blank page without any error!!!
You can try this out.
function countEntries($table, $where = '', $what = '')
{
if (!empty($where) && isset($what)) {
$q = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM " . $table . " WHERE " . $where . " = '" . $what . "' LIMIT 1";
} else{
$q = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM " . $table . " LIMIT 1";
}
$record = query($q);
$total = fetchrow($record);
return $total['count'];
}
Here you give an alias to the count(*) and use that to access the returned result as $total['count']. Hope it helps.
First things you forgot to close else past,second just add this line "ini_set("display_errors", 1);" at the top of your php.this will shows the error in your php.
Your code:
function countEntries($table, $where = '', $what = '')
{
if (!empty($where) && isset($what)) {
$q = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM " . $table . " WHERE " . $where . " = '" . $what . "' LIMIT 1";
} else
$q = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM " . $table . " LIMIT 1";
}
$record = query($q);
$total = fetchrow($record);
return $total[0];
}
my code:
function countEntries($table, $where = '', $what = '')
{
if (!empty($where) && isset($what)) {
$q = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM " . $table . " WHERE " . $where . " = '" . $what . "' LIMIT 1";
} else{
$q = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS count FROM " . $table . " LIMIT 1";
}
$record = query($q);
$total = fetchrow($record);
return $total['count'];
}
Thanks guys, Its working well now:
function countEntries($table, $where, $what)
{
if (!empty($where) && isset($what)) {
$q = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM " . $table . " WHERE " . $where . " = '" . $what . "' LIMIT 1";
} else
$q = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM " . $table . " LIMIT 1";
$record = mysql_query($q);
$total = mysql_fetch_array($record);
return $total[0];
}
echo countEntries('news', "type", "sport");