Count How Many Rows Inserted From Last SQL Query

Question

I have this query :

INSERT INTO db1.outbox (DestinationNumber, TextDecoded)
SELECT User.CellPhone, '$SMSMessage' as TextDecoded
FROM db2.User
WHERE User.PurchaseDate BETWEEN 2012-01-01 AND 2012-01-31

it does multiple rows insertion to 'outbox' table. but I don't know how many rows inserted. how to have number of rows inserted from that SQL syntax? thanks.

update I got '-1' as result of this command :

$insertedRows = mysql_query("SELECT ROW_COUNT()");
$rowInserted = mysql_fetch_array($insertedRows);
$rowInserted = $rowInserted[0];
echo $rowInserted;

but I see there are 27 rows inserted on my table. what did I do wrong?

Answer 1

put this on your last statement;

SELECT ROW_COUNT();

UPDATE 1

how about using mysql_affected_rows, example

<?php

   $link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');
   if (!$link) 
   {
       die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
   }
   mysql_select_db('mydb');

   /* this should return the correct numbers of deleted records */
   mysql_query('you SQL QUERY HERE');
   printf("Records deleted: %d\n", mysql_affected_rows());

?>