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Alternative for mysql_num_rows using PDO

^ I believe it isn’t the same question – The other authors code is different to mine, which needed a different answer. I successfully got my answer from this post and marked it as answered. Everything is working fine now (no help from the other ‘duplicate’ thread.

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I want to display a “No Client Found” message if no results are found, Is there a PDO method to the following code?:

$result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error()."<br />".$sql);
if(mysql_num_rows($result)==0) {
    echo "No Client Found";

I tried the following…

<?php                               
$db = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=XXXXXXXXXXXX;charset=utf8','XXXXXXXXXXXX', 'XXXXXXXXXXXX');

    $query = $db->query('SELECT * FROM client');

    if ($query == FALSE) {
      echo "No Clients Found";
    }
    else
    {
    foreach($query as $row)
    {
     <some code here>
    }   
    }           
    ?>  

Am I missing something?

I’ve read: http://php.net/manual/en/pdostatement.rowcount.php but hasn’t helped

Answer 1

PDOStatement::rowCount() does not return the number of rows affected by a SELECT statement in some databases. Documentation The code below uses SELECT COUNT(*) and fetchColumn(). Also prepared statements and try & catch blocks to catch exceptions.

<?php
// Get parameters from URL
$id = $_GET["client"];
try {
    $db = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=XXXX;charset=utf8', 'XXXX', 'XXXX');
    $db->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
    // Prepare COUNT statement
    $stmt1 = $db->prepare("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM client WHERE client = ?");
     // Assign parameters
    $stmt1->bindParam(1,$id);
    $stmt1->execute();
    // Check the number of rows that match the SELECT statement 
    if($stmt1->fetchColumn() == 0) {
        echo "No Clients Found";
    }else{
        //echo "Clients Found";
        // Prepare Real statement
        $stmt2 = $db->prepare("SELECT * FROM client WHERE client = ?");
     // Assign parameters
        $stmt2->bindParam(1,$id);
        $stmt2->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
        $stmt2->execute();
        while($row = $stmt2->fetch()) {
            //YOUR CODE HERE  FROM
             // Title
             echo '<div id="portfolio_detail">';
             //etc.etc TO
             echo '<div><img src="'."/client/".$row[client].'_3.png"/></div>';
             echo '</div>'; 
        }//End while
    }//End if else
 }//End try 
 catch(PDOException $e) {
    echo "I'm sorry I'm afraid you have an Error.  ". $e->getMessage() ;// Remove or modify after testing 
    file_put_contents('PDOErrors.txt',date('[Y-m-d H:i:s]').", myfile.php, ". $e->getMessage()."\r\n", FILE_APPEND);  
 }
//Close the connection
$db = null; 
?>