Re: Re: Passing a PHP variable to javascript

Look up on www.mysql.com documentation, you can do a count within a select statement SELECT whatever COUNT(whatever) AS COUNT FROM table GROUP BY 'something' HAVING something = 'something' -------------------------- | whatever | count | -------------------------- | stuff selected | 50 | -------------------------- Adam On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Pag wrote: > > Hi, i am coding a news manager backend for a client and i ran into a > little problem. > > I have two tables, one with the news and one with the comments on each news. > > How can i count how many comments there are for each news entry? Simply > put, is there some sort of Mysql command query that can count how many > records exist with a given field content? > Example: > > Count on a database how many "peter"s there are in there? > > Is there a specific SQL select or something, or i have to make a loop just > to count them? > > Thanks. > > /Pag > > > >