Question

foreach ($_POST['ECL'] as $lt) {

    //SQL select statements are run.  Each $lt is a where condition where results are obtained from the DB.
}

I want to take a count of each result and sum this up. The total would be records obtained. I can get the record count for each individual $lt, but I am unable to sum them. All help would be appreciated.

[update] the number of $lt is not fixed. $lt can be 1,2,3,4… Counter such as $i++ does no work

Answer 1

Try using mysql_num_rows or mssql_num_rows – they return the number of rows in a result

$count = 0;  // setup count variable
foreach ($_POST['ECL'] as $lt) {

    //SQL select statements are run.  Each $lt is a where condition where results are obtained from the DB.
    $count += mysql_num_rows($result);  // add results count to our counter
}
echo $count; // this will be the total number of rows the queries returned