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Asked: 2026-05-25T22:52:32+00:00

The user table is setup as: ID | Name | Email | Password and

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The user table is setup as:
ID | Name | Email | Password

and they login with:

Email | Password

I’m wondering how I can display their ‘Name’ when they login with their e-mail. What I have so far that works with email is: 

session_start();

if (!isset($_SESSION['email'])) {
    header('location: ');
}

include_once('config.php');

$email = $_SESSION['email'];

<!doctype html>
<body> 
    <p><?php echo $email; ?>

and that works, but when I try something like 

$sql = "SELECT name FROM $table WHERE email='$_SESSION["email"]'";
$result = mysql_query($sql);

<!doctype html> 
<body>
    <p><?php echo $result; ?></p>

that doesn’t work.
Any help is appreciated

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  1. Editorial Team

    mysql_query() only returns a resource, this needs to be passed to mysql_fetch_array() to deal with the returned records; http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-query.php has some examples

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