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

I agree that mysql_result is the easy way to retrieve contents of one cell from a MySQL result set. Tiny code:

$r = mysql_query('SELECT id FROM table') or die(mysql_error());
if (mysql_num_rows($r) > 0) {
    echo mysql_result($r); // will output first ID
    echo mysql_result($r, 1); // will ouput second ID
}