DB doesn't have num_rows/numRows ??

Why are you replying to every thread about this?

I'm sorry if it bothers you that I've responded to numerous threads. I had done a search of the forum and was hoping that one of the folks who were looking for this functionality might agree that it'd be useful to have the functionality.

Why do you think performing a count() operation on the results array would be "wasting" CPU power but using mysql_num_rows or equivalent functions is free?

I mentioned in this other thread that I searched the PHP source code for the MySQLi extension and it looks like the code just checks an integer value in memory rather than 1) creating data structures for a new string for the count query, 2) overwriting various Builder values set by a prior query, 3) sending this string to a DBMS (which might be running on an entirely different machine), 4) collecting, parsing, and buffering the result from the separate DBMS process.