Question

I’m using PHP to make a very specific sql query. For example sake, I have the user’s ID number, but I need their name. So I do a sql query from that table with the ID number in order to return the name.

$result = mysql_query("SELECT name FROM users WHERE userID=$thisuserid",$db);

Now I want to use that. What’s the most succinct way to go about making that result into a variable ths I can use?

edit:
I’m hoping that this is not the answer:

$rowCheck = mysql_num_rows($result);
if ($rowCheck > '0') {
   while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
    foreach ($row as $val){
        $username = $val;
    }
   }
}

Answer 1

I have used something like this to keep it short in the past:

list($name) = mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query("SELECT name FROM users WHERE userID=$thisuserid",$db));
echo $name;