Answers for "codeigniter number of selected rows"

codeigniter count rows

$this->db
  ->where(['field'=>'foo'])
  ->from("tablename")
  ->count_all_results();

//OR 
$this->db
  ->where(['field'=>'foo'])
  ->count_all_results("tablename");

get number of rows in codeigniter model

function data_model() {
    $this->db->select('*');
    $this->db->from('news_data');
    $id = $this->db->get()->num_rows();
    return $id;
}