Question

I am building a blog archive navigation menu. Currently I run a query to get all the years and months. Then I loop through and run the following query to get all id’s and titles of that year/months blog posts:

SELECT `id`, `title` 
FROM `news` 
WHERE YEAR(`date`) = "2010" AND MONTH(`date`) = "03" 
ORDER BY `date` DESC

After that, to count the amount of posts for that month I am running a very similar query:

SELECT COUNT(*) as `count` 
FROM `news` 
WHERE YEAR(`date`) = "2010" AND MONTH(`date`) = "03"

The year and month are dynamic of course.

Is there any way to avoid having to run two separate queries?

Thanks ahead of time!

Answer 1

You can count the rows via php after sending the first query (http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-num-rows.php)