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

mysqli_fetch_array() returns NULL if there is no row.

In procedural style:

if ( ! $row = mysqli_fetch_array( $result ) ) {
    ... no result ...
}
else {
    ... get the first result in $row ...
}

In Object oriented style:

if ( ! $row = $result->fetch_array() ) {
    ...
}
else {
    ... get the first result in $row ...
}