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

$result = $mysqli->query($query);
if($result){
    perform action
}

this is how i do it, you could also throw an else there with a die...