Q:

How to get the total found rows without considering the limit in PDO?

I found it very unprofessional to make a secondary query to check for more results in order to display a load more button.
I'm using PDO, is there any way to get the total found rows without the limit filter but still filtering the results?
Current Code:
// Show Results

$start = 0

$r=$db->prepare("SELECT * FROM locations WHERE area=:area LIMIT $start,10");
$r->execute($fields);

// See if there is more results

$r=$db->prepare("SELECT * FROM locations WHERE area=:area");
$r->execute($fields);

$offset=$start+10;
if($r->rowCount() > $offset){
echo "<div class='load'>Load More</div>";
}

A:

MySQL only AFAIK: 
$r=$db->prepare("SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS * FROM locations WHERE area=:area LIMIT $start,10");
$r->execute($fields);

var_dump($r->fetchAll());

var_dump($db->query('SELECT FOUND_ROWS();')->fetch(PDO::FETCH_COLUMN));

About as heavy for the database server as querying a single time for all the records of course. For non-MySQL use, this query is of course better then getting the rowcount of all the records:
$r=$db->prepare("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM locations WHERE area=:area");
$r->execute($fields);
$count = $r->fetch(PDO::FETCH_COLUMN);
echo $count;

