Question

I have a functions.php page, I have included in ALL my other php pages. What I want is a function in my functions.php page, I can use in all the other pages.

I have tried this:

    function getSetting()
    {
        $r=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM settings");
        if(mysql_num_rows($r) == 0)
            return false;
        else
            $sdata=mysql_fetch_assoc($r);

        return $sdata;
    }

The thing I want to, I want to get the data from the row next to the name in the following picture: http://awesomescreenshot.com/0bci8x472

Example:

If I write $sdata[‘sitename’], I want it to output “ptcify”

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try using mysql_fetch_array() with MYSQL_ASSOC as documented at this link http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-fetch-array.php.

There are a lot of things you could do to further improve your code implementation i.e OOP, using better database abstraction libraries(even switching to PDO insted of PHP_MYSQL is an improvement), but this should work straight of the bat.