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

Everything is fine, just one mistake is there. Change this:

$query = mysql_query("SELECT username FROM Users WHERE username=$username", $con);
$query = mysql_query("SELECT Count(*) FROM Users WHERE username=$username, $con");

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

SELECT * will not work, use with SELECT COUNT(*).