I have the following sql query I am using and was wondering if there is any
way of getting a total count of matching items in the database but limiting
the results to 3 or whatever number of items.
I have shortened the query somewhat for irrelevant stuff:
$sql_query = "select id,date,headline,type,story from jpnews ";
$sql_query .= "where type=1 and status=1 "
$sql_query .= "order by id desc limit 3";
$sql_result = $dbh->Query($sql_query);
$howmany = $sql_result->numrows;
Naturally, $howmany just gives me 3 on a query I tested that returns 6
without the limit. I want the total count so I can display a more tab at
the end of everything with the number of additional matching records and a
link to another program that runs a different query when retrieving those
items. I also want to keep the limit since the stories are all in the
database as text blobs and there is no sense returning a lot of data that
I'm just not going to use in this query.
Do I need to do two separate queries (one for the count plus the one above)
or is there some efficient way to get this into the same query?
Thanks
Jerry
