pg_affected_rows

(PHP 4 >= 4.2.0, PHP 5)

pg_affected_rows -- Returns number of affected records (tuples)

Description

int pg_affected_rows ( resource result)

pg_affected_rows() returns the number of tuples (instances/records/rows) affected by INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE queries executed by pg_query(). If no tuple is affected by this function, it will return 0.

Example 1. pg_affected_rows() example

<?php
     $result
= pg_query($conn, "INSERT INTO authors VALUES ('Orwell', 2002, 'Animal Farm')");
     
$cmdtuples = pg_affected_rows($result);
     echo
$cmdtuples . " tuples are affected.\n";
?>

Note: This function used to be called pg_cmdtuples().

See also pg_query() and pg_num_rows().