pdo count not working - sql

Question

I have a page and all the function is working my only problem now is ciunying the record from the databse..
Class.user.php
Public function data($count)
{
$stmt=$this->db->prepare("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM login");
$result=$this->db->prepare($count);
$result->execute();
$number_of_rows=$result->fetchColumn();
}
Index.php
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>2014</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<?php
$count="SELECT COUNT(*) FROM login";
$crud->data($count);
?>
The problem is that its not showing the count..

Answer 1

You're writing the same query as function argument, but also inside the function itself. And you're only really using one. This is nonsense. Dedicate your method to return the count, don't make the query a parameter.
prepareing the statement is pointless in this case, since you're neither reusing it nor are you binding any values. You can simply query() it directly.
The clincher: you're neither outputting nor returning the count, so it's very very expected that it doesn't show up anywhere.
Here's a sane version:
public function getCount() {
$result = $this->db->query('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM login');
return $result->fetchColumn();
}
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<?php echo $crud->getCount(); ?>

Answer 2

I think I usually do it like this link
$sql= "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM login";
$stmt = $pdo->prepare($sql);
$stmt->execute();
$row =$stmt->fetchObject();
then to output it you would have to ECHO
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<?php echo $row['count'];?>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>