mysql - how to assign a mysqli query result value to a php variable? -


<?php                     $con=mysqli_connect("localhost","user","pass","db");      // check connection     if (mysqli_connect_errno()){         echo "failed connect mysql: " . mysqli_connect_error();     }      // perform queries      $result = mysqli_query($con,"select count(*)\n"           . "from information_schema.columns\n"           . "where table_name = \'customerstable\'");             $something = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);      echo $something;                   mysqli_close($con); ?> 

i want code echo value of something, number of columns in table. don't see printed. doing wrong?

your query wrong. below:-

 <?php             $con=mysqli_connect("localhost","user","pass","db");      if (mysqli_connect_errno()){         echo "failed connect mysql: " . mysqli_connect_error();     }      $result = mysqli_query($con,"select count(*) total_count information_schema.columns table_name = 'customerstable'") or die(mysqli_error($con));      $something = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);      echo $something['total_count'];//or var_dump($something);      mysqli_close($con); ?> 

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