RE: [PHP-DB] LIMIT and get_num_rows

but presumably if i'm doing a SELECT count(*) FROM Designs WHERE Keywords LIKE "%sport%" followed by a SELECT * FROM Designs WHERE Keywords LIKE "%sport%" LIMIT 0,20 it's still using nearly as much processing time as just returning all the designs and just using a get_num_rows and then only using the first 20? -----Original Message----- From: Jonatan Bagge [mailto:jb@material.uu.se] Sent: 14 January 2002 11:00 To: matt stewart Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] LIMIT and get_num_rows First do a SELECT count(*) from tablename; This will get the number of entries... The rest should be simple... matt stewart wrote: hi guys, just looking for verification on this, as i don't think there's any way to do it.... Basically, i want to return the results for a search, but only return the first 20 results from the start number given.... LIMIT $start, 20 BUT... i'd like to have a page 1-whatever so if there are 65 results in total, then the first 20 will be shown, but there will be options to move to pages 2,3 or 4. Obviously, if i use LIMIT, then it won't know that there are 65 in total, so how would i get around this? do i just have to do the full query, and then only use the first 20 results in the results set? just becomes a bit of a problem if there are, say, 8000 results returned! would it just be best to return the first 200 using LIMIT, and do my pages for those, with a note that there are more than 200 results, and to refine the search criteria? Cheers, Matt --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system ( HYPERLINK "http://www.grisoft.com"http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.313 / Virus Database: 174 - Release Date: 02/01/02 -- PHP Database Mailing List ( HYPERLINK "http://www.php.net/"http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.313 / Virus Database: 174 - Release Date: 02/01/02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.313 / Virus Database: 174 - Release Date: 02/01/02