I can't count my users in the database with my current configurations.
<?php
require_once 'scripts/app_config.php';
mysqli_connect(DATABASE_HOST,DATABASE_USER,DATABASE_PASS,DATABASE_NAME);
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno())
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
$query = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$num = mysql_num_rows($result);
echo "There are: ". $num . " users in the database";
mysqli_close($con);
?>
Your problem is this:
$num = mysql_num_rows($result);
Your query only returns 1 row, so I presume the problem you're having is that it always outputs: There are 1 users in the database.
You should instead use:
$num = mysqli_fetch_array($query)[0];
Either use COUNT(*)
OR use mysql_num_rows
$query = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$num = $row[0];
echo "There are: ". $num . " users in the database";
Note : mysql_*
function is deprecated, move on mysqli_*
function asap.