Question

I am working on a wordpress platform, while generating a mysql query I want to display the number of rows from that query. An example is shown below.

$query = ("SELECT wp_posts.ID, wp_term_relationships.object_id
     FROM wp_posts
     LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships ON wp_posts.ID = wp_term_relationships.object_id
     WHERE post_date <= '$now'
     AND term_taxonomy_id = '$catid'
     AND post_date >= '$then' 
     AND post_status = 'publish'");

Now when I generate this query into phpmyadmin, it gives the following output
Showing rows 0 – 5 (6 total, Query took 0.0013 sec)

I want to display the number of rows i-e 6 total …
so what function i must use to display it ??

Answer 1

$query = ("SELECT count(*), wp_posts.ID, wp_term_relationships.object_id
 FROM wp_posts
 LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships ON wp_posts.ID = wp_term_relationships.object_id
 WHERE post_date <= '$now'
 AND term_taxonomy_id = '$catid'
 AND post_date >= '$then' 
 AND post_status = 'publish'");