PHP Variable in Select Statement

Question

I\'ve written this PHP-Script which is working, and now I want to change the row name into a variable to (not sure if row is correct), I mean the \"name\" from the selec

Answer 1

Is it this you're looking for? Even your question in German isn't that clear to me :

$field = 'name';
$query = mysql_query("SELECT $field FROM contacts WHERE contact_id='". mysql_real_escape_string( $id ) ."' and user_id='1';");
$retval = mysql_fetch_object($query)->$field;