Question

Newish to mysql. I have a query and it is not showing the value of the cell just the row name:

$sql="SELECT 'first' from `users` WHERE `id`= $userid ";
$res=mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());

$row=mysql_fetch_assoc($res); 

echo $row['first'] ; 

What am I doing wrong????

Answer 1

First remove quotes from ‘first’ – it is a column so don’t put it in quotes, you can use ` istead.
Next loop through results and that’s all.

$sql="SELECT first from `users` WHERE `id`= $userid ";
$res=mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());

while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($res))
  echo $row['first'] ;