Read one column from one row from a MySQL database

Question

Is there a quick and dirty way to get the value of one column from one row? Right now I use something like this:

$result = mysql_query(\"SELECT value FROM ta         


        

Answer 1

if you want it to return only one value use the limit keyword

/* Limits Results to 1 */
$result = mysql_query("SELECT value FROM table WHERE row_id='1' LIMIT 1;");
$row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)
echo $row['value'];