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How To Get the Number of Rows Selected or Affected by a SQL Statement?

There are two functions you can use the get the number of rows selected or affected by a SQL statement:

• mysql_num_rows($rs) - Returns the number of rows selected in a result set object returned from SELECT statement.
• mysql_affected_rows() - Returns the number of rows affected by the last INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE statement.

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1. How To Install MySQL Server?
2. How To Use MySQL Command Line Interface?
3. What Do You Need to Connect PHP to MySQL?
4. How To Connect to MySQL from a PHP Script?
5. How To Create a Database?
6. How To Select an Exiting Database?
7. How To Run a SQL Statement?
8. How To Create a Table?
9. How To Get the Number of Rows Selected or Affected by a SQL Statement?
10. How To Insert Data into a Table?
11. How To Insert Rows Based on SELECT Statements?
12. What Is a Result Set Object?
13. How To Query Tables and Loop through the Returning Rows?
14. How To Update Existing Rows in a Table?
15. How To Delete Existing Rows in a Table?
16. How To Quote Text Values in SQL Statements?
17. How To Quote Date and Time Values in SQL Statements?
18. How To Perform Key Word Search in Tables?
19. How To Query Multiple Tables Jointly?
20. How To Set the ID Column as Auto-Incremented?
21. How To Get the Last ID Assigned by MySQL?