Question

I count MySQL rows using this function:

function sqlcount($table)
{
     $sql = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(0) FROM $table;");
     $sql = mysql_fetch_array($sql);
     return $sql[0];     
}

Print the result:

echo sqlcount("members"); 

But this does not work and does not show the true count. What is the problem?

Answer 1

try with this also :

function sqlcount($table)
{
     $sql = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) as num FROM $table;");
     $sql = mysql_fetch_array($sql);
     return $sql['num'];     
}

or instead of COUNT(*) set any field name of the selected Database.