note 76921 deleted from function.PDOStatement-rowCount by bobby

Note Submitter: ludvig dot ericson at gmail dot com ---- I don't understand why PDOStatement::rowCount can't return the number of rows in the result-set and there's *no* other way of counting the rows in the result-set. It's highly awkward. Anyway, the best way that I can think of is to use PDOStatement::fetchAll() and then just use count() on the returned array, or use the shady tip that the PHP manual provides and use COUNT(*) in your SELECT clause. Truth be told, using count() is probably easier.