Counting the number of results returned by a database query in Codeigniter

Question

I am not having much luck detecting when a database query in Codeigniter returns zero results. I have had a good read of the notes on the PHP count function but am none the

Answer 1

If you put count($result) in if statement then when it succeds, it returns only 1.

You can try $query->num_rows() in a different way.