Simple way to read single record from MySQL

Question

What\'s the best way with PHP to read a single record from a MySQL database? E.g.:

SELECT id FROM games

I was trying to find an answer in t

Answer 1

Using PDO you could do something like this:

$db = new PDO('mysql:host=hostname;dbname=dbname', 'username', 'password');

$stmt = $db->query('select id from games where ...');
$id = $stmt->fetchColumn(0);
if ($id !== false) {
    echo $id;
}

You obviously should also check whether PDO::query() executes the query OK (either by checking the result or telling PDO to throw exceptions instead)