Hi Monks,
This is a piece of my code that when it runs it finds only one result based on the date I am searching on it. But my question is why my counter is bringing out 2 instead of 1, when 1 is the times the entry was found in the database.
All I am trying to do is to count how many times a status showing 1 or 2 is inside of the table in my database.
I have many entries with status 1 and many with status 2, I am showing all the status 1 or 2 based on the date I need, I hope I explained it well.
Here is the code:
$count_sent=0;
$count_received=0;
$count_nviewed=0;

$sql = "SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE day = '$d' AND month = '$m_num' and
+ year = '$y' ";

$sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->execute() || die $sth->errstr;

while ($pointer = $sth->fetchrow_hashref)
  {
      $count_sent++;
      if (my $status = $pointer->{'status'} eq "2") {
      $count_received++;}
      
      if (my $status = $pointer->{'status'} eq "1") {
      $count_nviewed++;}      
  }
#Running this it find one entry based on my date as 06/24/2004
print "My results: $count_nviewed<br>";

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Thank you

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