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Asked: 2026-05-16T11:49:04+00:00

Here is a line of my code while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) I want to get

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Here is a line of my code

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))

I want to get how many columns are in the row. I tried count($row) but this returned what I think is the number of cells for the whole $results.

i.e there are actually 7 columns, and 2 rows and count($row) returned 14. I want a function that will return 7.

Can you see where I’m going wrong.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT – Answer found

Passed MYSQL_NUM as a second parameter to mysql_fetch_array.
Thanks anyway to everyone’s answers.

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    When you use mysql_fetch_array each row has the columns indexed twice, once by column number and once by column name. So count($row) will be twice the number of columns.

    Use mysql_fetch_row if you only want numerical indices, and mysql_fetch_assoc if you want name indices. These functions will both return rows with 7 entries.

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