MySQL incorrect result on group by - php

Question

I am counting unique ip visits for user account. I am getting different result on checking total visits vs grouped user account visits
My table structure is like this
id userid userip status date
1 xxxx 11111 1 unix timestamp
2 yyyy 11122 1 unix timestamp
3 zzzz 11133 1 unix timestamp
4 cccc 11144 1 unix timestamp
I am doing query like this
$date1 = strtotime("yesterday midnight");
$date2 = strtotime("today midnight");
SELECT `userid`, COUNT(DISTINCT `userip`) AS `total` FROM `stats`
WHERE (`date` >= $date1 AND `date` < $date2) AND `status`=1
This gives result as 5644
But when I group by userid result is different
$date1 = strtotime("yesterday midnight");
$date2 = strtotime("today midnight");
SELECT `userid`, COUNT(DISTINCT `userip`) AS `total` FROM `stats`
WHERE (`date` >= $date1 AND `date` < $date2) AND `status`=1 GROUP BY `userid`
while($row=mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)){
$total=$total+$row['total'];
}
This gives result as 6312
Please see why there is different result on group by
Thanks
EDIT
Result is correct if I don't count DISTINCT

Answer 1

its obvious that the count wont match as in your first query you have used distinct with count now the rows fetched is 5644.
Which may have count with the values like 2,3,4,5 so if you need the same count as group by you need to add all the count column which will be same as your group by query
if you need unique users the use below query
SELECT DISTINCT `userip` AS `userip` FROM `stats`
WHERE (`date` >= $date1 AND `date` < $date2) AND `status`=1
For user with unique ip
SELECT userid,userip from stats GROUP BY userip HAVING COUNT(*) >=1