I think, I will store the count and update it every 24 hours like tedd, says. I have thought of that earlier but was woundering if there might be another method. But I am wondering how google estimates the number of results, but I think that is a more complex thing :P. Thanks for the responses :) regards, Joep 2008/7/13 Joep Roebroek <j.roebroek@xxxxxxxxx>: > I had this question, which I didn't really know where to ask, so I > thought to begin at this mailing list. > > Very basicly said, I count the rows of a table which had approx 50000 > or more rows. > > The problem is, there is a notable difference in loading time with > other pages. Is there a technique to estimate the number of rows > instead of exactly couting them? So that it saves loading time. > > For example, when you search with google, you get an estimate of the > number of results, how do they do this? > > Maybe this is not a question for the PHP Mailing list, but if not > where is a better place to ask this? > > regards, > > Joep > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php