Question

I have a published field that has either a value of 1 or 0. I want to be able to alert the user to how many records require publishing, or are unpublished. I want to count the number of records from table testimonials where published is equal to 0 and output that value as

Awaiting to be published:#with published=0

I have this and I realize it is wrong:

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM testimonials WHERE published='0'");
$result=mysql_num_rows($sql);
echo $result;

Answer 1

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT SUM(published=0) AS nb_unpublished,
                           SUM(published=1) AS nb_published FROM testimonials");
$result = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql);
echo "Records awaiting to be published:" . $result['nb_unpublished'] . '<br>';
echo "Records already published:" . $result['nb_published'] . '<br>';