Best way to check if MySQL results returned in PHP?

Question

I\'m looking for the best way to check and see if any results were returned in a query. I feel like I write this part of code a lot and sometimes I get errors, and sometimes

Answer 1

$connect = new mysqli('localhost', 'user', 'password', 'db');
$result = $connect->query("select * from ...");
$count=$result->num_rows;
if(empty($count)){
echo"Query returned nothing";
}
else{
echo"query returned results";
}