Using mysql_num_rows with multiple tables?

Question

Here's the code I've started with:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM apis_hashes_a", $link);
$count = mysql_num_rows($result);

What I need to do is to get the total sum of all rows for all tables that start with apis_hashes_ .

There are tons of tables and new ones are being added all the time, but all of these tables start with apis_hashes_ at the beginning. Is this something that would be possible to do or do I have to list every table individually in the PHP code?

Answer 1

JUST use SUM() IN SQL.Use the code below

<?php
$query = "SELECT SUM(TABLE_ROWS) as score
     FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES 
     WHERE SCHEMA = '{your_db_name}'";
$result = mysql_query($query, $link);
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$total_rows = $row['score'];
}
echo $total_rows;
?>

Hope this helps you

Answer 2

The sql:

show tables like 'apis_hashes_%'

will return the list of all your tables, then you need loop thru all the names of the tables with the mysql sum() function.