resource id #4 Why am I getting this?

Question

I have a pretty basic forum template I am working on for testing purposes

When I create a topic, and press submit, the proccess updates the database but doesn\'t out

Answer 1

If you check the link - http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-query.php

For SELECT, SHOW, DESCRIBE, EXPLAIN and other statements returning resultset, mysql_query() returns a resource on success, or FALSE on error

Hence you are seeing the Resource#4

. What is it you want to achieve?