Using Count giving wrong number of rows - php

Question

Before I was using this code to count rows
echo $db_handle->numRows("SELECT * FROM orders WHERE DATE(reattemptdate) = CURDATE()");
than i found it effects on performance, than i tried to use below code, but it not giving correct number of rows, what wrong i done in below code ?
$sqldelivery = "SELECT COUNT(*) as count FROM orders WHERE DATE(reattemptdate) = CURDATE()";
$resultdeliverys = $db_handle->runSelectQuery($sqldelivery);
$numrowsresultdelivery =count($resultdeliverys);
echo $numrowsresultdelivery;
Database connection code :
function numRows($query) {
$result = mysqli_query($this->conn,$query);
$rowcount = mysqli_num_rows($result);
return $rowcount;
}

Answer 1

In your second code, the query will always return 1 row - a row with the column count being the number of rows, so...
$numrowsresultdelivery =count($resultdeliverys);
Will probably always be 1, you need something like...
$numrowsresultdelivery =$resultdeliverys[0]['count'];
to extract the count field from the first row of the result.
(Note I don't know if this is the right notation, but it's the principle of needing a field from the result rather than the number of results.)

Answer 2

You must already have the count number via $resultdeliverys->count.
$sqldelivery = "SELECT COUNT(*) as count FROM orders WHERE DATE(reattemptdate) = CURDATE()";
$resultdeliverys = $db_handle->runSelectQuery($sqldelivery);
// Try this to know if it's returning array or object
var_dump($resultdeliverys);