php query alwaysfalse no matter what - php

Question

I have tried to read and do (incorporate) anything I find on here. But I have not found the solution. I'm using wamp server and I have a user table with 2 users one with email and password as test and test1 and no matter what I try the if statement always returns false.
<?php
$user = "root";
$pass = "";
$db = "testdb";
$db = new mysqli("localhost", $user, $pass, $db) or die("did not work");
echo "it connected";
$email = "test";
$pass1 = "test1";
$qry = 'SELECT * FROM user WHERE email = " '. $email .' " AND password = " '.$pass1.' " ';
$result = mysqli_query($db, $qry) or die(" did not query");
$count = mysqli_num_rows($result);
if( $count > 0)
echo " found user ";
else
echo " did not find user or password";
?>
I have tried to augment mysqli_num_rows but then it comes out always true

Answer 1

You have spaces in your query around your variables:
" '. $email .' "
change to:
"'. $email .'"
MySQL will take those spaces literally when it searches for matches.

Answer 2

I needed to eliminate the blank spaces in the encapsulation of the variable
<?php
$user = "root";
$pass = "";
$db = "testdb";
$db = new mysqli("localhost", $user, $pass, $db) or die("did not work");
echo "it connected";
$email = "test";
$pass1 = "test1";
$qry = 'SELECT * FROM user WHERE email = "'. $email .'" AND password = "'.$pass1.'"';
$result = mysqli_query($db, $qry) or die(" did not query");
$count = mysqli_num_rows($result);
if( $count > 0)
echo " found user ";
else
echo " did not find user or password";
?>

Answer 3

If you are using mysqli class version then you should use like below :
<?php
$user = "root";
$pass = "";
$db = "testdb";
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", $user, $pass, $db);
$email = "test";
$pass1 = "test1";
$qry = sprintf('SELECT * FROM user WHERE email = "%s" AND password = "%s"',$email,$pass1);
$result = $mysqli->query($qry);
$count = $result->num_rows;
if( $count > 0)
echo " found user ";
else
echo " did not find user or password";
$mysqli->close();
?>