Question

I am using zend framework and I see save() function used in the code, would like to know if there is a way to get the rows affected after this to see number of rows affected ..

I checked this documentation but din’t help much. any ideas? thanks

Answer 1

The Zend_Db_Table_Row::save() method returns the primary key of the row, either the current primary key if you’re updating an existing row, or a new primary key if you’re saving a new row.

The save() method applies to one row instance, so as @Evernoob says it should only apply to one row. But it doesn’t necessarily result in one row "affected" when you save. For instance, if I haven’t changed any column values, and I save() a row, the rows affected is zero. Try something like this in the mysql shell and you’ll see it reports zero rows affected.

UPDATE mytable SET column1 = column1 WHERE id = 1234; -- effectively a noop

The Zend_Db_Statement has a method rowCount() (mimicking the PDOStatement rowCount() method), but this information is not surfaced through the Zend_Db_Table_Row interface.

So if you need that information, you’ll have to update your data using Zend_Db_Adapter::query() to create a Zend_Db_Statement object. After you execute() the statement, you can call rowCount() on it.