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

You don't have to use mysql_fetch_array(). If you want, try something like this:

$sql="SELECT * FROM $tbl_name ORDER BY id DESC"; //that's your query
$result=mysql_query($sql);
$rows=mysql_num_rows($result);
$iteration=0;
echo "";

while($iteration < $rows){
    $cell_in_your_html_table = mysql_result($result , $iteration , 'column_name_from_database');
    echo "";
      $iteration++;
}
echo "
".$cell_in_your_html_table."
"