Forum member count

[djadejones]

I am trying to get a page to display a total number of members on my forum so have done the following:

created a page containing:

    <?php
    $db_host = 'localhost';
    $db_user = 'xx';
    $db_password = 'xx';
    $db_name = 'adejones_phpb1';

    mysql_connect($db_host,$db_user,$db_password) or die(mysql_error());
    mysql_select_db($db_name) or die(mysql_error());

    $result = mysql_query("SELECT num_users as count FROM phpbb_config");
    echo 'Total members: '.$result['count'].'<br>';
    ?>

All this does it display "Total members:" with no value afterwards, what am I doing wrong here?

Thanks, Adey

[WyCnet]

The following snippet can get you closer to your goal:

 
$result = mysql_query("SELECT num_users as count FROM phpbb_config");
if(mysql_num_rows($result)==0)
    echo 'There are no members. '.'<br>';
else{
    $data=mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
    echo 'Total members: '.$data['count'].'<br>';
}

[djadejones]

Hi WyCnet

That code gave me the following:

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/adejones/public_html/membercount.php on line 11
There are no members.

I did get a bit closer with the following though:

$query = "SELECT config_value FROM phpbb_config WHERE config_name='num_users'";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$array=mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
print_r($array);

This gives me:

Array ( [config_value] => 974 )

Now I just need to get rid of the array config value bit and have just the number.