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# 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.

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

### Parameters

`result`

  PostgreSQL query result resource, returned by pg_query(), pg_query_params() or pg_execute() (among others).

### Return Values

The number of rows affected by the query. If no tuple is affected, it will return 0.

### Examples

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";
?>`

The above example will output:

    1 tuples are affected.

### See Also

- pg_query()
- pg_query_params()
- pg_execute()
- pg_num_rows()

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