Counting specific records MySQL

I want to show the count of users which have the status 1 (see code) within PHP MySQL.

<?php
// something like this
$result = mysqli_query($mysqli, "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users WHERE status = '1'");
echo "$result";
?>

Answer

Try this:

$query = "SELECT COUNT(*) as countvar FROM users where status = '1'";

$result = mysqli_query($con,$query);

$row = mysqli_fetch_array($result);

$count= $row['countvar '];