Question

What’s the best way to print from MySQL using PHP when you know there’s only going to be a single record?

My SQL statement is:

select user from users where user = 'norman';

This will return only a single record. So what’s the best way to print it? I currently do:

while ($info=mysql_fetch_assoc($data))

etc

But that’s OK for more than one record. Any better way to do this when there’s only one?

Answer 1

If you’re absolutely certain that this query will always retrieve 1 row then this should be enough:

$row = mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query($sql));

Then you can manipulate $row (the single row) at your will.