PHP MySqli Check For No Results in Database

There are many times when you have to PHP MySqli Check For No Results in Database. Maybe you are checking the username and password of a user and match it to an authenticated user.

Prerequisites for PHP MySqli Check For No Results in Database

In order to perform this query you will have to have something in your database to  compare it to. We are going to compare our form variables to what we have in the database. Make sure that you have the following.

• You Created A Database
• You Granted Privileges to the database
• Created a config.php file to access the database
• Inserted Information into a database to call from.
• Make sure you Connect to a Database before using this code.

Retrieve Information From A Database And Compare

Here is the code to retrieve information from a database. I included a sample form in this code for you. The important thing to note is that we are using the num_rows; function that comes with PHP. This will tell us if there were no rows that matched the criteria.

<?php include('config.php'); 
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){

$comparethis=$_POST['compare'];
$result = $con->query("SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE something='$comparethis'") ;

$rowcount = $result->num_rows;

if($rowcount < 1){
echo 'There is no record that matches that';
die()
}

while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo $row['row-name'];
}

$con-> close();
}
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<form action="" method="post">
<input name="compare" type="text" />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
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