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

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Answer 1

I really like the philosophy of the ezSQL database library, which wraps the native SQL methods in an easier-to-use interface.

Fetching a single value from the database is trivial:

  $id = $db->get_var("SELECT id FROM games WHERE ...");

It also makes it easy to fetch a single row, column, or set of rows.