Question

I have a MySQL database table with 2 fields – username and score. I want the result of a mysql select query to show the score of someone with a particular username. How would I do this?

Here is the current code: mysql_result($result, 0)

Is there any way that I can make the person’s username act as a row name/number?

Thanks

Answer 1

The row parameter in mysql_result must be a number. However, you can just refactor your query to search on username. Assuming username is unique you can do:

$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE username = 'john'");
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res);
echo $row['score'];