Query result is true instead of false

Question

Consider the following simple PHP code:

<?php  
   $db=new mysqli('localhost', 'root','','apeirosto');            
   $query="UPDATE REQUESTS SET STATUS=1 where requestid=155"; 
   $result=$db->query($query);  
   if (!($result)) {
     $message= "fail_update";   
     echo $message;
   }
   else
   {
     $message= "success";   
     echo $message;
   }  
?>

My secondary question:

 $result=$db->query($query);

plays the role of commit in DB?

My main question:

even if there is no row with PK requestid=155, $result returns true and the message I get is "success"... Why? How may I get an error message in such cases?

Thank you

Answer 1

The query method returns false only when there is an error in executing. When no changes happens, there is no error, so query returns something other than false.

You can use affected_rows property to check any rows are updated. It returns number of changed rows after the query.

More information: http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.affected-rows.php