Simple query error

[christ2000]

hello i am using thhe following code to pull the total rows in a table , ui put the code in a custom file.(.php)

the code is:

<?php

$qry =mysql_query("select * from documents");
echo mysql_num_rows($qry);
?>

but i got the following error when i load the php file:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function PHPMaker2019\project1\mysql_query() in C:\xampp\htdocs\phpmaker\test.php:33 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in C:\xampp\htdocs\phpmaker\test.php on line 33

any idea?

thanks in advance

[arbei]

No more mysql extension, you may use the mysqli extension instead: https://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.summary.php

[christ2000]

Thnkas