Question

im trying to select the row quote and author from my table and echo it

my goal is to create a random quote generator and display the actual quote and author.

I have entered 25 quotes in my table with 3 rows (ID, quote, author)

my code is the following and i keep getting the resource id #9 error

<?php

mysql_select_db(name of database);

$quotes = "SELECT author AND quote FROM inspirational_quotes ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1";

$result = mysql_query($quotes);

WHILE ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)):
ENDWHILE; 

echo "$result";
?>

please help

Answer 1

You cant echo $result as a string

do

    WHILE ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)):
     echo $row['author'] . " " . $row['quote'];
ENDWHILE; 


?>