Trying to check if username already exists in MySQL database using PHP

Question

I\'ve looked at the many other posts that were similar to my issue and implemented their solutions (as far as I can tell) as exactly as I could. However, every time I execut

Answer 1

TRY THIS ONE

 mysql_connect('localhost','dbuser','dbpass');

$query = "SELECT username FROM Users WHERE username='".$username."'";
mysql_select_db('dbname');

    $result=mysql_query($query);

   if (mysql_num_rows($query) != 0)
   {
     echo "Username already exists";
    }

    else
   {
     ...
    }