[ticket/10653] Add ability to count table rows to database abstraction layer.

PHPBB3-10653

phpBB/includes/db/dbal.php

@@ -900,6 +900,41 @@ class dbal
 
 		return true;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	* Gets the estimated number of rows in a specified table.
+	*
+	* @param string $table_name		Table name
+	*
+	* @return string				Number of rows in $table_name.
+	*								Prefixed with ~ if estimated (otherwise exact).
+	*
+	* @access public
+	*/
+	function get_estimated_row_count($table_name)
+	{
+		return $this->get_row_count($table_name);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	* Gets the exact number of rows in a specified table.
+	*
+	* @param string $table_name		Table name
+	*
+	* @return string				Exact number of rows in $table_name.
+	*
+	* @access public
+	*/
+	function get_row_count($table_name)
+	{
+		$sql = 'SELECT COUNT(*) AS rows_total
+			FROM ' . $this->sql_escape($table_name);
+		$result = $this->sql_query($sql);
+		$rows_total = $this->sql_fetchfield('rows_total');
+		$this->sql_freeresult($result);
+
+		return $rows_total;
+	}
 }
 
 /**