It returns number of rows in result

MySQL Table – Users

+—-+——+
| id | name |
+—-+——+
|  1 | PHP  |
|  2 | PHP  |
|  3 | PHP  |
|  4 | PHP  |
|  5 | PHP  |

Example

<?php
mysql_connect(“localhost”, “root”, “phpcode”) or die(mysql_error());
$db_selected = mysql_select_db(“database_name”);
echo mysql_num_rows(mysql_query( “SELECT * FROM users”));
mysql_close();
?>

Output

5