select and echo a single field from mysql db using PHP

Question

Im trying to select the title column from a particular row

$eventid = $_GET[\'id\'];
$field = $_GET[\'field\'];
$result = mysql_query(\"SELECT $field FROM `event         


        

Answer 1

Read the manual, it covers it very well: http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-query.php

Usually you do something like this:

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
  echo $row['firstname'];
  echo $row['lastname'];
  echo $row['address'];
  echo $row['age'];
}