Possible to optimize/merge this kind of query scenario?

You can just do one statement to show the count of all Yes, No and Pending like this

$result = mysql_query("SELECT Count(CASE WHEN TextSubscribed = 'Yes' THEN 1 END) as NumOfYes, Count(CASE WHEN TextSubscribed = 'Pending' THEN 1 END) as NumOfPending, Count(CASE WHEN TextSubscribed = 'No' THEN 1 END) as NumOfNo FROM subscribers WHERE ContestId='$contest_id'");
$unsubscribed = mysql_num_rows($result);
mysql_free_result($result);

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$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM subscribers WHERE ContestId='$contest_id' AND TextSubscribed  IN ('Yes'","Pending","No");
$subscribed = mysql_num_rows($result);
mysql_free_result($result);

I think it must be the way I worded my issue: the solutions seem to give me a solitary 'how many of X' but they don't give me: how many Yes, how many No and how many Pendings.
I'm trying to figure out how many of each of the 3 possible answers.

Select subscribers , count(subscibers) where ContestId='$contest_id' AND TextSubscribed  IN ('Yes'","Pending","No");

@darren-w-
Within my original question, if I was to run those 3 queries, I would have ended up with a count for how many of each (numbers are just for example):
$subscribed = 8
$unsubscribed = 4
$pending = 2

Problem was it seemed kind of redundant to run 3 queries on the same table one after the other to get a value for each

I'm trying to figure out how many of EACH "Yes, No and Pending" there are and assign each to a variable so I can output to my page.

Kind of like:
"Last week you had <php echo $subscribed> subscribers, <?php echo $unsubscribed?> people unsubscribed and there are still <?php echo $pending?> people who are pending.

What does the query produce

Not tested but expect something like
Array(
Yes=>4,
No=>6,
Pending=>7
);

@darren-w-
I appreciate your efforts but the code simply failed. I noticed a number of quotation errors that I think I fixed but nevertheless couldn't get anything meaningful out of it. Maybe it was just me.

Worked out of the box. Thanks!

Hi,

This is the corrected code:

SELECT TextSubscribed, COUNT( * ) AS count
FROM subscribers
WHERE  `ContestId` = $contest_id
AND  `TextSubscribed` 
IN (
 "Yes",  "pending",  "No"
)

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Dump of db:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `subscribers` (
  `id` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `ContestId` int(11) unsigned NOT NULL,
  `TextSubscribed` varchar(30) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=7 ;


INSERT INTO `subscribers` (`id`, `ContestId`, `TextSubscribed`) VALUES
(1, 3, 'yes'),
(2, 3, 'pending'),
(3, 1, 'no'),
(4, 1, 'pending'),
(5, 2, 'pending'),
(6, 1, 'no');

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with contest id = 1

TextSubscribed  count
no            2
pending   1

write2mohit, are you able to explain how yours differs?, Was on my mobile last night so was not able to test it out