// we can go with die function, and some mysqli function like
// mysqli_num_rows
$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","employeeDB") or die('Unable to connect');
$sql="select * from employee where id = 1";
$result=mysqli_query($con,$sql) or die(mysqli_error());
if ($result){
// this will return the number of rows in result set
$numRos=mysqli_num_rows($result);
if($numRos > 0){
$data = mysqli_fetch_array($result);
print_r($data);
}else{
print "No data found";
}
}