Question

I want to initialize a variable from an entry in an sql table; this entry is one I’ve queried for.

//Grab user id from users.sql
$quser = $db->query("
    SELECT *
        FROM users //in this table is a column named userident
        WHERE username = '$user' //this where conditional filters to a lone row         
");*/

I tried $var = $quser["ident"]; since this is how I would display table entries in a foreach() loop, but this doesn’t seem to work.

There is only one ident entry per user, so when I filter the query with where, it results in one row. Why can’t I grab the entry and place in a variable?

Answer 1

This is what you need to do

1. Execute the query
2. Pick up the first row (as there will be only one row this’ll work otherwise do it in a loop)
3. Get the column from the row produced

Here’s an example

    $quser = $db->query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = '$user'");
    $first_row=$quser->row();

    $reqdData=$first_row->ident; // Or whateber column you need