If you would like to just find out how many rows are returned by a query without actually using the results, then it's much more efficient to use SQL count function (specially for large tables with millions of rows).
<?php
$sql = "SELECT COUNT(indexed-field) AS cnt FROM some-table";
$r = mysql_query($sql);
$row = mysql_fetch_object($r);
echo $row->cnt;
?>
msql_num_rows
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
msql_num_rows — Get number of rows in result
설명
int msql_num_rows
( resource
$query_identifier
)msql_num_rows() returns the number of rows in a result set.
반환값
Returns the number of rows in the result set.
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