count * in mySQL

[Anon]

I'm feeling really dumb now, I see examples of code that will do a count (*) but I still get stuck.

Here's the code I have at the moment,

$sql = "select count(DividerID)as num_rows from divider ";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
$row = mysql_fetch_array( $result );
echo $row["num_rows"];

This give me the output :
Dividers
14

. Is there a way to output just the number "14" alone, without the Dividers showing?

Thanks.

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The query you run will only return 14, nothing else.
I guess the 'Dividers' is printed somewhere else in your script.

Note: count(col1) will only count the number of rows where col1 !=NULL.