MYSQL - Select specific value from a fetched array

Question

I have a small problem and since I am very new to all this stuff, I was not successful on googling it, because I dont know the exact definitions for what I am looking for.

Answer 1

I used the code from the answer and slightly modified it. Thought I would share.

$result = mysql_query( "SELECT name FROM category;", db_connect() );
$myrow = array();
while ($myrow[]  = mysql_fetch_array( $result, MYSQLI_ASSOC )) {}
$num = mysql_num_rows($result);

Example usage

echo "You're viewing " . $myrow[$view_cat]['name'] . "from a total of " . $num;