Mysqli query returns no rows - php

Question

For whatever reason, I keep getting the echo "No News."; even though I clearly have information put into the table which is named news.
<?php
session_start();
define('DB_SERVER', "localhost");
define('DB_USER', "USERNAME");
define('DB_PASSWORD', "PASSWORD");
define('DB_DATABASE', "DATABASE");
$mysqli = new mysqli(DB_SERVER, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_DATABASE);
// Check connection
if(mysqli_connect_errno()) {
echo "Email Owner#OtherTXT.com";
exit();
}
/* create a prepared statement */
$query = "SELECT `title`, `message`, `date` FROM `news`";
$result = $mysqli->query($query);
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
// output data of each row
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo "<h2>";
echo ($row["title"]);
echo "</h2>";
echo "<h3>";
echo ($row["date"]);
echo "</h3>";
echo "<br />";
echo "<p>";
echo ($row["message"]);
echo "</p>";
}
} else {
echo "No News.";
}
$mysqli->close();
?>
This is a picture of my table

Answer 1

Hope this will help ;)
if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) {
// output data of each row
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo "<h2>";
echo ($row["title"]);
echo "</h2>";
echo "<h3>";
echo ($row["date"]);
echo "</h3>";
echo "<br />";
echo "<p>";
echo ($row["message"]);
echo "</p>";
}
} else {
echo "No News.";
}

Answer 2

Maybe adding a store_result before calling the num rows do the trick:
$result = $mysqli->query($query);
$result->store_result();
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
...
Or you can put it into the query:
$result = $mysqli->query($query,MYSQLI_STORE_RESULT);