php mysqli fetch result always returning 1 - php

Question

this is code i am trying to work with. i am checking number of total row in a table(how many people registered). my output don't have any error or so, i dont know what am i doing wrong. same thing was working yesterday. god knows what happened now
$query = "SELECT count(*) FROM team";
$result = $db->prepare($query);
$result->execute();
$number= $result->fetch();
print_r($number);
var_dump($result);
OUTPUT:
1
object(mysqli_stmt)#2 (10) { ["affected_rows"]=> int(-1) ["insert_id"]=> int(0) ["num_rows"]=> int(0) ["param_count"]=> int(0) ["field_count"]=> int(1) ["errno"]=> int(0) ["error"]=> string(0) "" ["error_list"]=> array(0) { } ["sqlstate"]=> string(5) "00000" ["id"]=> int(1) }

Answer 1

You could do the following:
$query = "SELECT count(1) FROM team";
if($stmt = $db->prepare($query)){
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->bind_result($number);
$stmt->fetch();
$stmt->free_result();
$stmt->close();
}
echo $number;
or
$query = "SELECT * FROM team";
if($stmt = $db->prepare($query)){
$stmt->execute();
$stmt->store_result();
$number = $stmt->num_rows;
$stmt->free_result();
$stmt->close();
}
echo $number;