I wanna check before insert or update mysql

check before insert or update mysql my code doesn't work I have no idea why

$sql = "SELECT * FROM downloads WHERE name = '" . $details['name']."' " ;
    $result = mysql_query($sql);

if( mysql_num_rows($result) === 0) {
    $sql = "INSERT INTO downloads (name, idu) VALUES ('".$details['name']."', '".$details['idu']."')";
    $result = mysql_query($sql);
   }
else{

    $sql2 = "UPDATE downloads SET idu='".$details['idu']."' WHERE name='". $details['name'] ."'";
    $result = mysql_query($sql2);

    }