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

function getSingleRow($table, $where_clause="", $column=" * ",$debug=0) {
    $SelectQuery = createQuery($table, $where_clause, $column);

    $result = executeQuery($SelectQuery,$debug);
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
        $row_val = $row;
    }
    return $row_val;
}