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

The easiest way is to use mysql_result. I copied some of the code below from other answers to save time.

$link = mysql_connect('localhost','root','yourPassword')
mysql_select_db('database',$link);
$sql = 'SELECT id FROM games'
$result = mysql_query($sql,$link);

$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($result);

// i is the row number and will be 0 through $num_rows-1
for ($i = 0; $i < $num_rows; $i++) {
    $value = mysql_result($result, i, 'id');
    echo 'Row ', i, ': ', $value, "\n";
}