Question

Like I said I can’t count the results returned by mysql_fetch_row:

while ($a = mysql_fetch_row($sql)) {
 $result = count($a);
 echo $result;
}

It’s returns (1) only why?

Answer 1

Counting a single row (most propably contaning a single field) will return 1 – as it should. Look at mysql_num_rows() if you want the rowcount before fetching the result, or – if you want to follow up on your own approach – do something like

$count=0;
while ($a = mysql_fetch_row($sql)) {
 //Do something with the result

 $count++;
}
echo $count;