Mysqli result always returns 0

Question

Hi I can connect to my database but it's says that I have 0 rows! I've tried different ways to connect to my database, but all of them always return 0 rows so it will not show any data from the database.

$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
} 

$sql = "SELECT * FROM keys";
$result = $conn->query($sql);

if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
    // output data of each row
    while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
        echo "id: " . $row["id"]. " - Key: " . $row["key"]. " " . $row["used"]. "<br>";
    }
} else {
    echo "0 results";
}
$conn->close();
?>

Answer 1

SELECT * FROM keys
              ^

KEYS is a reserved term , hence your query fails to execute and no data is returned, at the very least escape it.

Best option would be to change your field name to something that's not reserved.

Something funny to note

You're saying if there are some rows in my result show me those but if there are no rows in my result then show me the number of rows. In short, displaying the number of rows when your query fails is utterly pointless! That will be a good place to display an error message returned by the database driver

Answer 2

keys is reserved keyword in mysql it must be in backtick as

$sql = "SELECT * FROM `keys`";

Your query fails and your got 0 result always

To check error in query use

if (!$conn->query("Your_QUERY")) {
    printf("Errormessage: %s\n", $conn->error);
}

Read http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.error.php

Answer 3

I think you have to use this code for get result :-

$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `keys`";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
// output data of each row
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
    echo "id: " . $row["id"]. " - Key: " . $row["key"]. " " . $row["used"]. "<br>";
}
} else {
echo "0 results";
echo "Rows:". mysqli_num_rows($result);
}
$conn->close();