mysql_query returning wrong result - php

Question

Consider the following code
if ( isset( $_SESSION['FBID'] ) ) {
$uid = $_SESSION['FBID'];
$sql = "SELECT *, count(member_nr) AS notifyMe
FROM poolWinners
WHERE member_nr = '$uid' AND notification ='1'";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$notification = $row['notifyMe'];
}//while
if ( $notification > 0 ) {
echo '<span class="badge">' . $notification . '</span>';
} //if
var_dump($notification);
} //isset( $_SESSION['FBID'] )
The above script returns how many notifications a member has as you can see in image below
My Problem
The script is returning the wrong result (wrong number of notifications). Have a look at the table below, the member number appears 3 times in the table so:
$notification = $row['notifyMe'] Should = 3 AND NOT 1
What am I missing or doing wrong here? Thanks for reading

Answer 1

Use
$sql = "SELECT *, count(*) AS notifyMe
FROM poolWinners
WHERE member_nr = '$uid' AND notification ='1'";
Notice count(*) , it will fetch how many records are matching criteria.
And initialize $notification = 0; at the start.

Answer 2

Have you tried approaching it from this angle
$sql = "SELECT * FROM poolWinners WHERE member_nr = '$uid' AND notification ='1'";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
$notification = array();
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$notification[] = $row['notifyMe'];
}
//an array count on notification should give you the number of elements in the array i.e those that matched the query
$total_count = count($notification);

Answer 3

In your code the notification will be always one, since it will take only the notifyMe field of last row in the result set.
If you want to get number of notifications, try this
if ( isset( $_SESSION['FBID'] ) ) {
$uid = $_SESSION['FBID'];
$sql = "SELECT *, count(member_nr) AS notifyMe
FROM poolWinners
WHERE member_nr = '$uid' AND notification ='1'";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
$notification = 0;
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$notification++;
/*
OR $notification += $row['notifyMe'];
*/
}//while
if ( $notification > 0 ) {
echo '<span class="badge">' . $notification . '</span>';
} //if
var_dump($notification);
} //isset( $_SESSION['FBID'] )

Answer 4

$sql = "SELECT *
FROM poolWinners
WHERE member_nr = '$uid' AND notification ='1'";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
$notification = mysql_num_rows($result);

Answer 5

$sql = "SELECT * FROM poolWinners WHERE member_nr = '$uid' AND notification ='1'";
if ($result=mysqli_query($con,$sql))
{
// Return the number of rows in result set
echo "Toal notification".mysqli_num_rows($result);
}
mysqli_close($con);
?>