Question

I’m trying to echo out a specific value, but whenever I run the code- all I get is
nothing.

My code is here:

$studentname = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $alias WHERE FBID=$user") or die ('Error: '.mysql_error ());
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($studentname))
{
  $queried_name = $row['Name'];
  echo 'Name: ' . $queried_name;
}

Answer 1

$name IS your resource handler because of this…

$name = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $alias WHERE FBID=$user") ...

and the error you received is because you tried to echo the resource handler, inside your loop

echo ( 'Name: '.$name );

I understand the confusion, and I would suggest that you name your variables accordingly to avoid this. I would always name my resource handler with a prefix of $rs to make it clear that it is a resource.