Question

I have this code

 $sql5 = "SELECT * FROM iptable 
               WHERE user_id = '$userid_c' AND ip = '$ip' LIMIT 0, 30 ";
 $query5=mysql_query($sql5);
 $row_ip_a = mysql_num_rows($query5);

When I use this from phpmyadmin it returns fine results but when I use it from php it always returns one row.

What could be the reason?

Answer 1

mysql_num_rows — Get number of rows in result

<?php
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table1", $link);
$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($result);

echo "$num_rows Rows\n";?>

U need this:
mysql_fetch_array — Fetch a result row as an associative array, a numeric array, or both

Your Code Just Yields with number of rows affected,
where as u need the data from select query

hence You can use mysql_fetch_array as:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT id, name FROM mytable");

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    printf("ID: %s  Name: %s", $row[0], $row[1]);  
}