I'm trying to query using PHP.
I just expect the value to return to be a number but it's giving me back more:
$numberCount = $this->db->query("SELECT count(*) FROM users WHERE number = $number;");
$numberCountResult = $numberCount->result();
$this->set_response($numberCountResult, REST_Controller::HTTP_CREATED);
My API will now return me:
[
{
"count(*)": "1"
}
]
I just want it to give me:
[
{
"1"
}
]
How can I just extract that single value?