Question

I would like to count the total number of rows returned by the following query:

SELECT table1.*, COUNT(table2.fk) * (100/18) AS 'number' 
FROM table1 INNER JOIN table2 ON table1.pk = table2.fk
WHERE table1.Street LIKE '$Street%' 
AND table1.City LIKE '$City%' 
AND table1.Zip LIKE '%$Zip' 
AND table1.DOBY LIKE '%$DOBY' 
AND table1.DOBM LIKE '%$DOBM' 
AND table1.DOBD LIKE '%$DOBD' 
AND table1.Gender LIKE '$gender%' 
AND table2.year>= 2004 
AND table2.type IN ('AA', 'AB', 'AC') 
GROUP BY table2.fk
HAVING (COUNT(table2.fk) * (100/18)) >= '$activity' 
ORDER BY DOBY, DOBM, DOBD ASC

The query counts the number or times the primary key of table1 occurs as the foreign key of table2, and calculates a percentage (‘number’) based on a fixed amount. It works well enough, but I’m having trouble getting the total amount of records found for my pagination script.
I would appreciate it if anyone can offer some suggestions or solutions.

Answer 1

u can do SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS (google for exact syntax)
And then use SELECT FOUND_ROWS() AS total