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mysql_affected_rows

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mysql_affected_rows — Liefert die Anzahl betroffener Datensätze einer vorhergehenden MySQL Operation

Beschreibung

int mysql_affected_rows ([ resource $link_identifier ] )

Liefert die Anzahl betroffener Datensätze durch die letzte INSERT, UPDATE oder DELETE Anweisung, die mit link_identifier assoziiert ist.

Parameter-Liste

Verbindungs-Kennung: Die MySQL-Verbindung. Wird die Verbindungskennung nicht angegeben, wird die letzte durch mysql_connect() geöffnete Verbindung angenommen. Falls keine solche Verbindung gefunden wird, wird versucht, eine Verbindung aufzubauen, wie es beim Aufruf von mysql_connect() ohne Angabe von Argumenten der Fall wäre. Falls zufällig keine Verbindung gefunden oder aufgebaut werden kann, wird eine Warnung der Stufe E_WARNING erzeugt.

Rückgabewerte

Gibt bei Erfolg die Anzahl betroffener Datensätze und -1 falls die letzte Abfrage fehlschlug zurück.

War die letzte Anfrage ein DELETE-Anweisung ohne WHERE Bedingung, wurden alle Datensätze aus der Tabelle gelöscht. Für MySQL Versionen vor 4.1.2 wird diese Funktion hier aber Null (0) zurückliefern.

Benutzen Sie UPDATE wird MySQL keine Spalten aktualisieren, bei denen der neue dem alten Wert entpspricht. Das kann dazu führen, dass mysql_affected_rows() nicht die tatsächliche Anzahl der betroffenen Zeilen liefert, sondern nur die, die wörtlich durch die Anfrage betroffen sind.

REPLACE Anfragen löschen zunächst den Eintrag mit dem gleichen Primärschlüssel und fügen dann den neuen Eintrag ein. Diese Funktion gibt in diesem Fall die Summe aus gelöschten und eingefügten Einträgen zurück.

Beispiele

Beispiel #1 mysql_affected_rows() Beispiel


<?php
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');
if (!$link) {
    die('Keine Verbindung möglich: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db('mydb');

/* dies sollte die korrekte Anzahl gelöschter Datensätze zurückgeben */
mysql_query('DELETE FROM mytable WHERE id < 10');
printf("Gelöschte Datensätze: %d\n", mysql_affected_rows());

/* mit einer WHERE Bedingung, die niemals wahr ist, sollte 0 zurückgegeben
   werden */
mysql_query('DELETE FROM mytable WHERE 0');
printf("Gelöschte Datensätze: %d\n", mysql_affected_rows());
?>

Das oben gezeigte Beispiel erzeugt eine ähnliche Ausgabe wie:

Gelöschte Datensätze: 10
Gelöschte Datensätze: 0

Beispiel #2 mysql_affected_rows() Beispiel mit Transaktionen


<?php
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');
if (!$link) {
    die('keine Verbindung möglich: ' . mysql_error());
}
mysql_select_db('mydb');

/* Update der Datensätze */
mysql_query("UPDATE mytable SET used=1 WHERE id < 10");
printf ("Updated records: %d\n", mysql_affected_rows());
mysql_query("COMMIT");
?>

Das oben gezeigte Beispiel erzeugt eine ähnliche Ausgabe wie:

Updated Records: 10

Anmerkungen

Hinweis: Transaktionen

Falls Sie Transaktionen verwenden, müssen Sie mysql_affected_rows() unmittelbar nach Ihrer INSERT, UPDATE, oder DELETE Anfrage aufrufen, nicht nach dem Commit.

Hinweis: SELECT Anweisungen

Um die Anzahl der gelieferten Datensätze einer SELECT-Anfrage zu erhalten benutzen Sie stattdessen die Funktion mysql_num_rows().

Hinweis: Kaskadierende Fremdschlüssel-Beziehungen

mysql_affected_rows() zählt keine Zeilen, die implizit durch die Nutzung von ON DELETE CASCADE und/oder ON UPDATE CASCADE in Fremmschlüssel-Bedingungen betroffen sind.

Siehe auch

mysql_num_rows() - Liefert die Anzahl der Zeilen im Ergebnis
mysql_info() - Liefert Informationen über die zuletzt ausgeführte Anfrage zurück

add a note User Contributed Notes
mysql_affected_rows

HMax
02-Jul-2007 12:21


If you use "INSERT INTO ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE" syntax, mysql_affected_rows() will return you 2 if the UPDATE was made (just as it does with the "REPLACE INTO" syntax) and 1 if the INSERT was.



So if you use one SQL request to insert several rows at a time, and some are inserted, some are just updated, you won't get the real count.

dobrys at abv dot bg
28-May-2007 11:35


I see that when try to use mysql_affected_rows() with "mysql_pconnect(...)" without link indetifier as param in "mysql_affected_rows()" the result is allways -1.

When use link identifier "mysql_affected_rows($this_sql_connection)" - everything is Fine. This is is on PHP Version 5.2.0

Hope that this was helpfull for somebody

mlugassy at 2find dot co dot il
08-Oct-2005 03:22


To solve the affectedRows() issue on MySQL using PEAR::DB, simply add a 'client_flags' key with a value of 2 to your $dsn options:



$dsn = array(

    'phptype'  => 'mysql',

    'client_flags'  => 2,

    'username' => 'someuser',

    'password' => 'apasswd',

    'hostspec' => 'localhost',

    'database' => 'thedb',

);

temp02 at flexis dot com dot br
29-Jun-2005 02:39


SCENARIO

1. You're using MySQL 4.1x with foreign keys.

2. You have table t2 linked to table t1 by a CASCADE ON DELETE foreign key.

3. t2 has a UNIQUE key so that duplicate records are unacceptable.

3. You have a REPLACE query on t1 followed by an INSERT query on t2 and expect the second query to fail if there's an attempted insert of a duplicate record.



PROBLEM

You notice that the second query is not failing as you had expected even though the record being inserted is an exact duplicate of a record previously inserted.



CAUSE

When the first query (the REPLACE query) deletes a record from t1 in the first stage of the REPLACE operation, it cascades the delete to the record that would be duplicated in t2. The second query then does not fail because the "duplicate" record is no longer a duplicate, as the original one has just been deleted.

jeroen_vde at hotmail dot com
12-Mar-2005 02:22


If you want to delete all in table, and get number of affected rows back use a delete statment of this form:



mysql> DELETE FROM table_name WHERE 1>0;



Note that this is much slower than DELETE FROM table_name with no WHERE clause, because it deletes rows one at a time. 



Source: MySQL Reference Manual "Delete Syntax"

steffen at showsource dot dk
28-Sep-2004 12:20


Using OPTIMIZE TABLE will also return true.

So, if you want to check the numbers of deleted records, use mysql_affected_rows() before OPTIMIZE TABLE

sam_dot_fullman_at_verizon.nt
19-May-2004 09:12


Just a MySQL note, using REPLACE INTO on a record could return either ONE or TWO affected rows with this function.  Basically, REPLACE INTO will insert a record if no combination of unique keys is matched, or delete the existing record if the new record matches one or more unique keys, then insert the new record over it.



This is actually helpful if you want to know if a record was already in there.  (Affected rows=1 means there wasn't already a record there, Affected rows=2 means there was), but if you don't know how REPLACE INTO works it could confuse you.  I didn't see this in the notes above and hope it helps someone out.

deponti A_T tiscalinet D0T it
07-Nov-2003 01:52


It works also for REPLACE query,returning:

0 if the record it's already updated (0 record modified),

1 if the record it's new (1 record inserted),

2 if the record it's updated (2 operations: 1 deletion+ 1 insertion)

Richard dot Johnson2 at student dot gu dot edu dot au
25-Oct-2003 12:56


RE: sng2nara's comment



I think the expression should read:

"/^[^0-9]+([0-9]+)[^0-9]+([0-9]+)[^0-9]+([0-9]+).*$/"

as there is nothing usually returned after the number of warnings.  The previous expression required at least 1 non-digit character after the number of warnings.

sng2nara
02-Oct-2003 09:41


You can use following code for choosing update or insert.



mysql_query($update_sql);

preg_match(

"/^[^0-9]+([0-9]+)[^0-9]+([0-9]+)[^0-9]+([0-9]+)[^0-9]+$/",

  mysql_info(),

  $arr);



if( $arr[1] == 0 ) // a number of matched rows is 0

{...do insert query...}

else

{...nothing...}

raistlin at oracolo dot com
03-Jul-2003 06:38


| If you need to know the actual count of rows, 

| even if some update changed nothing add a field 

| count int(11) and add | one on every update, like in:

|

| mysql_query("update table set count=count+1, ...");

| if (mysql_affected_rows()==0) {

|  mysql_query("insert into table ...");

| }



Better: add a field `flag` tinyint(1) unsigned default '0'

on every update: "update table set flag=1-flag, ..."

anthonyd at rhsonline dot net
03-Jul-2003 01:08


My little work around for the update problem (that I ran into):



if (mysql_affected_rows()==0)  {

  $q = "select .. WHERE ...<search for what you updated>'";

  if (mysql_num_rows(mysql_query($q))==0)

    die("0 rows affected");

  else

    echo "Record Alredy Existed";

}



It is probably not the best way, as I sometimes run 2 queries for the same thing, but it gets the job done.

phpweb at eden2 dot com
28-Jun-2003 08:47


"Note: When using UPDATE, MySQL will not update columns where the new value is the same as the old value.  This creates the possiblity that mysql_affected_rows() may not actually equal the number of rows matched, only the number of rows that were literally affected by the query."



As of PHP 4.3.0 (I assume, I only tried with 4.3.2), you can make mysql_affected_rows() return the number of rows matched, even if none are updated.



You do this by setting the CLIENT_FOUND_ROWS flag in mysql_connect(). For some reason, not all the flags are defined in PHP, but you can use the decimal equivalent, which for CLIENT_FOUND_ROWS is 2.



So, for example:



$db= mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "pass", false, 2);

mysql_select_db("mydb", $db);



$query= "UPDATE ...";

mysql_query($query);

print mysql_affected_rows(); // more than 0

mysql_query($query); // same query twice

print mysql_affected_rows(); // still more than 0

gabriel dot preda at amr dot ro
18-Jun-2003 05:35


-1-----------------------------

$w = "insert into...";

$q = mysql_query($w) or die('mortua est'); // 1433 times

print mysql_affected_rows($cnex); // prints 1433

-2-----------------------------

$w = "insert into...";

$q = mysql_query($w) or die('mortua est'); // 1433 times

@mysql_query("SELECT a FROM b LIMIT x"); //

print mysql_affected_rows($cnex); // prints x



It appears that php's "mysql_affected_rows" calls mysql's "mysql_affected_rows"... witch says:



"For SELECT statements, mysql_affected_rows() works like mysql_num_rows().

mysql_affected_rows() is currently implemented as a macro."

adam at NOSPAM dot example dot com
17-Jan-2003 08:34


using PHP/MySql -There is an alternate way to get the rows returned - 

for non-critical use i suppose--due to its oversimplified approach.



You can simply intialize a variable to the integer value of 0, and then, inside of the "while" loop that returns the rows

of your query, you increment that variable and then print out the final value of that variable outside of that "while" loop.

Or, you could print the variable within each iteration if you want to give each row returned [ as in a chart where you

need to provide line numbers ]



//code:

$sql = "SELECT * FROM YourTable

ORDER BY Last_Name";



$result = @mysql_query($sql, $connection) or die("Could not execute query.");



$i = 0; // we will use variable $i as a returned row counter.



while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

$First_Name = $row['First_Name'];

$Last_Name = $row['Last_Name'];

$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($result);

$i++;



//To show the rows number by number



echo "Member no. $i $First_Name $Last_Name < br >";

// the < br > is an actual HTML line break

// which is not allowed on posting these notes,

// to use it, close up the spaces between the < and the >



// above echo statement will produce the results below if 3 rows were returned:

//  Member no. 1 John Jones

//  Member no. 2 Mary Smith

//  Member no. 3 Nancy Steffan



}

  echo "$i Rows Returned from query.";



// above statement will produce:

//    3 Rows Returned from query.



Hope this helps-- again,

this is a simplified approach.



take care;

<?adam?>

spam123 at cobsen dot biz
09-Dec-2002 02:04


If you need to know the actual count of rows, even if some update changed nothing add a field count int(11) and add one on every update, like in:



mysql_query("update table set count=count+1, ...");

if (mysql_affected_rows()==0) {

  mysql_query("insert into table ...");

}

ben-xo at NOSPAMdubplatesNOSPAM dot org
21-Apr-2002 04:30


mysql_affected_rows() reports on the number of rows affected by an in-place operation on the database, but mysql_num_rows() returns the number of rows in a MySQL record set (which is held by PHP after MySQL has generated it). This means that if you can do



$a = mysql_query("SELECT ...");

$b = mysql_query("SELECT ...");

if (mysql_unm_rows($a) > mysql_num_rows($b)) print "a is larger";

else print "b is larger";



... but this does not make sense for the operations supported by mysql_affected_rows(), which reports on the status of the database connection as a whole. 



Particularly note this:



$query = "UPDATE ...";

mysql_query($query);

print mysql_affected_rows(); // more than 0

mysql_query($query); // same query twice

print mysql_affected_rows(); // 0. 



.. this is because the 2nd time you execute the identical query, all the rows are already updated so no rows are affected the 2nd time.



I hope this clears up why mysql_num_rows() and mysql_affected_rows() are fundamentally different

dfylstra at frontsys dot com
13-Aug-2001 09:06


mysql_affected_rows() also reports the number of rows changed by the LOAD DATA command.  If you use the IGNORE option in LOAD DATA and you know the number of rows in the input file, you can use mysql_affected_rows() to determine the number of rows that were ignored.

peter at petermoulding dot NO_SPAM dot com
06-Aug-2001 08:34


mysql_affected_rows() fails with some automatic updates. An example from the PHP Black Book is that of session records updated by automatic timestamps. When you maintain the session valid time via a timestamp and use some databases including MySQL, then update the session record, the automatic timestamp update will not count as an update in mysql_affected_rows(). You have to manually update the timestamp field. In MySQL that is achieved by setting the field to nulls. If your time field is named updated, you have to include


set updated = null


Other databases require appropriate tricks and you will have to test stored procedures in your database to see if their updates count in mysql_affected_rows().

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