Question

When I run the following code the echo returns resource id #10 instead of number, in my case 6. Would appreciate any help!

$result = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(`category_id`) FROM `products_has_product_category`
WHERE `category_id`=1");
        echo $result;

Answer 1

use function mysql_fetch_object or mysql_fetch_row to convert query result to data

$result = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(`category_id`) as count FROM `products_has_product_category`
WHERE `category_id`=1");

$row = mysql_fetch_object($result);
$count = $row->count;
echo $count;

see mysql_fetch_object