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How do i “echo” a “Resource id #6” from a MySql response in PHP?

I have a statement:

      $query1 = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(author) FROM userpages WHERE `author` = '" . $userid . "'") or die();
      echo $query1;

Ignore the amazingly awful naming convention their, its just for testing it before i beef it up. Because im not actually getting data from the table i should just be able to echo the statement shouldnt i? However its giving me an error.

The error is: Resource id #4

Any advice?

Thanks.

Answer 1

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-query.php

Returned values:

For SELECT, SHOW, DESCRIBE, EXPLAIN and other statements returning
resultset, mysql_query() returns a resource on success, or FALSE on
error.

And:

The returned result resource should be passed to mysql_fetch_array(),
and other functions for dealing with result tables, to access the
returned data.