mysqli_result::$num_rows

(PHP 5, PHP 7)

Gets the number of rows in a result

int mysqli_num_rows ( mysqli_result $result )

Object oriented style

int $mysqli_result->num_rows;

Procedural style

Returns the number of rows in the result set.

The behaviour of mysqli_num_rows() depends on whether buffered or unbuffered result sets are being used. For unbuffered result sets, mysqli_num_rows() will not return the correct number of rows until all the rows in the result have been retrieved.

Parameters:

result

Procedural style only: A result set identifier returned by mysqli_query(), mysqli_store_result() or mysqli_use_result().

Returns:

Returns number of rows in the result set.

Note:

If the number of rows is greater than PHP_INT_MAX, the number will be returned as a string.

Examples:

Object oriented style

<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");
 
/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
    printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
    exit();
}
 
if ($result = $mysqli->query("SELECT Code, Name FROM Country ORDER BY Name")) {
 
    /* determine number of rows result set */
    $row_cnt = $result->num_rows;
 
    printf("Result set has %d rows.\n", $row_cnt);
 
    /* close result set */
    $result->close();
}
 
/* close connection */
$mysqli->close();
?>

Procedural style

<?php
$link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");
 
/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
    printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
    exit();
}
 
if ($result = mysqli_query($link, "SELECT Code, Name FROM Country ORDER BY Name")) {
 
    /* determine number of rows result set */
    $row_cnt = mysqli_num_rows($result);
 
    printf("Result set has %d rows.\n", $row_cnt);
 
    /* close result set */
    mysqli_free_result($result);
}
 
/* close connection */
mysqli_close($link);
?>

The above examples will output:

Result set has 239 rows.