Question

I have a table as follows:

In the future the table will have several more rows.
I am trying to select currentStage from the database using the following code:

$currentStage = mysql_query("
SELECT `currentStage` FROM `team` WHERE `gameID` = '$gameID'
");

Using the above selects the two 1's from the data base however I really just want to select one of them. With only the gameID as a reference. (ie. I can only use WHEREgameID= '$gameID' as a method of finding) Is there a way of doing this?

I hope this makes sense

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use LIMIT 1 to fetch only one row from the result set:

SELECT `currentStage`
FROM `team`
WHERE `gameID` = '$gameID'
LIMIT 1

Alternatively you can use MIN or MAX to find the minimum or maximum value:

SELECT MIN(`currentStage`) AS `currentStage`
FROM `team`
WHERE `gameID` = '$gameID'