Question

I’m using a basic SQL query with ADO and PHP but the row count always returns -1. What am I missing?

Here is my code:

include 'constants.php';

// Create an instance of the  ADO connection object
$conn = new COM ("ADODB.Connection")
    or die("Cannot start ADO");

// Open the connection to the database
$conn->open(DB_CONN_STR);

$query = "select * from table_name";

$rs = $conn->execute($query);

if (!$rs) {
    return;
}
else {
    return $rs->RecordCount();
}

I know this table has values…what am I missing?

Answer 1

The manual says why.
http://phplens.com/lens/adodb/docs-adodb.htm#recordcount

seems you have set

$ADODB_COUNTRECS = false