Question

Is there another way to count no of rows returned by a query.The following code returns 1 even though there is no result returned.(i am working on ZEND).

$this->view->overdue_query = $overdue_query->fetchAll();
/*Get overdue count */
$this->view->overdue_count = count($overdue_query);

Answer 1

$this->view->overdue_query = $overdue_query->fetchAll();
/*Get overdue count */
$this->view->overdue_count = count($overdue_query);//you are doing count on 
//your query and not the result of fetchAll

it should be instead

$this->view->overdue_query = $overdue_query->fetchAll();
 /*Get overdue count */
$this->view->overdue_count = count($this->view->overdue_query); 

//unless you're getting overdue_count in your view then you would do :
$count = count($this->overdue_query);