Question

This code is supposed to get the user id from my database but it returns this : Resource id #6

So how would I code this to make it return the user id?Here is my code so far and I know that mysql_query is becoming outdated:

<?php
include("login_check.php");
include("dbconnect.php");
mysql_select_db("maxgee_close2");
$username = $_COOKIE['maxgee_me_user']; 
$user_id = mysql_query("select user_id from users where username = '$username'");
echo "$user_id";
?>

Answer 1

mysql_connect("localhost", "mysql_user", "mysql_password") or 
  die("Could not connect: " . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("maxgee_close2");
$result = mysql_query("select user_id from users where username = '$username'");
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
echo $row['user_id'];    
mysql_free_result($result);