Question

I am using php to create a highscore database for my iPhone Application. However it will only show 100 highscores (that I set). How can I change this to get the count of all of the rows in the database?

Here is part of my code:

$table = "highscores";

// Initialization
$conn = mysql_connect(DB_HOST,DB_USER,DB_PASSWORD);
mysql_select_db(DB_NAME, $conn);

// Error checking
if(!$conn) {
    die('Could not connect ' . mysql_error());
}

$type   = isset($_GET['type']) ? $_GET['type'] : "global";
$offset = isset($_GET['offset']) ? $_GET['offset'] : "0";
$count  = isset($_GET['count']) ? $_GET['count'] : "100";
$sort   = isset($_GET['sort']) ? $_GET['sort'] : "score DESC";

Answer 1

To get the number of records from a table, you can try following code:

<?php
$query = mysql_query("select count(*) as total from table_name");
$result = mysql_fetch_array($query);
echo $result['total'];
?>