Posted by D. Wokan on 04/11/05 23:13
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> * Reynier Perez Mira <rperezm@estudiantes.uci.cu>:
>
>>I'm using PEAR DB and Smarty. The case is that I have to pass a value =
>>from a query result to a Smarty var. I try to paginate results. See the =
>>code below:
>>
>>/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////=
>>
>>SmartyPaginate::connect();
>>SmartyPaginate::setLimit(5);
>>$gbresult =3D $database->query("SELECT * FROM libro_de_visitas LIMIT " . =
>>SmartyPaginate::getCurrentIndex() . "," . SmartyPaginate::getLimit());
>>$gbtotal =3D $database->query("SELECT COUNT(*) AS total FROM =
>>libro_de_visitas");
>>$gbtotal->fetchRow();
>>SmartyPaginate::setTotal($gbtotal['total']);
>>
>>/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////=
>>
>>As you can see I need the COUNT value but I not know how get it from =
>>query using PEAR. Some body can help me?
>
>
> You'll need to do two different queries, one that counts the number of
> total results for the criteria, and one that pulls the set with a LIMIT
> statement.
>
That is definitely not a Good Thing. I did that with an employer's site
and database performance suffered having to always count and recount the
records in question.
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