Question

My code:

$pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost; dbname=test', 'root', 'password');
$pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
$pdo->exec('SET NAMES "utf8"');
...
$count = $pdo->query('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM myTable');

I’m trying to count all records in myTable and store that number as $count. How can I make this happen?

I get this message: Object of class PDOStatement could not be converted to int. To my understanding, it is not an int.

Answer 1

Actually, that query will return a PDO statement. Then you can use that statement to get the item of interest.

$statement = $pdo->query('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM myTable');
$result = $statement->fetch();
$count = $result[0];

This gets the statement from your query, then gets the first row (the only row from this query) and then stores the count, $result[0], into a variable named $count.