Get the individual answer from a sql count() into php - php

Question

I have a sql database where I request the following bit of code;
SELECT albumtype, COUNT(*) FROM albumdata GROUP BY albumtype
The response in phpMyAdmin is the following table
albumtype | COUNT(*)
Album | 4
EP | 1
Single | 1
Then I have in my php file the following code that will return the complete count (6).
$stmt = $con->prepare('SELECT albumtype, COUNT(*) FROM albumdata GROUP BY albumtype');
$stmt->execute() or die("Invalid query");
$result = $stmt->get_result();
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
$row_cnt = mysqli_num_rows($result);
I used this code on another page, but now I want to select a specific part of the "count()" table.
I tried to display a single result with $row_cnt = $row['Album'];, but as it turns out, this returns "Array" for some reason. Here is my php call:
$stmt = $con->prepare('SELECT albumtype, COUNT(*) FROM albumdata GROUP BY albumtype');
$stmt->execute() or die("Invalid query");
$result = $stmt->get_result();
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
$row_cnt = $row['Album'];
How can I grab a single row, for example the number of how much the database could find Album (4 times) and put it in a php variable? I tried searching it on here, but didn't get any further.

Answer 1

1.If you want only specific albumType ten you can directly change your query like this:-
$stmt = $con->prepare("SELECT albumtype, COUNT(*) as counts FROM albumdata WHERE albumtype = 'Album'");
$stmt->execute() or die("Invalid query");
$result = $stmt->get_result();
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
$album_cnt = $row['counts'];
echo $album_cnt;
But if you want all then,you need to do it like below:-
$stmt = $con->prepare('SELECT albumtype, COUNT(*) as counts FROM albumdata GROUP BY albumtype');
$stmt->execute() or die("Invalid query");
$result = $stmt->get_result();
$row_cnt = array();
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()){
$row_cnt[$row['albumtype']] = $row['counts'];
}
echo "<pre/>";print_r($row_cnt);
// you have all data in array so you can use it now like below
foreach($row_cnt as $key=>$value){
echo "Album type ".$key." has ".$value." counts"."<br/>";
}
//form this all data if you want to compare specific albumType then do like below:-
foreach ($row_cnt as $key=>$value) {
if($key == 'Album'){
echo $value;
}
}

Answer 2

Loop over the rows till you match the type you want to display:
foreach ($row as $srow) {
if($srow['albumtype'] == 'Album'){
print $srow['count'];
}
}