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

Better if SQL will be optimized with addion of LIMIT 1 in the end:

$query = "select id from games LIMIT 1";

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SO ANSWER IS (works on php 5.6.3):

If you want to get first item of first row(even if it is not ID column):

queryExec($query) -> fetch_array()[0];

If you want to get first row(single item from DB)

queryExec($query) -> fetch_assoc();

If you want to some exact column from first row

queryExec($query) -> fetch_assoc()['columnName'];

or need to fix query and use first written way :)