Printing result of mysql query from variable

Question

So I wrote this earlier (in php), but everytime I try echo $test\", I just get back resource id 5. Does anyone know how to actually print out the mysql query from the variable?<

Answer 1

From php docs:

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

For other type of SQL statements, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, DROP, etc, mysql_query() returns TRUE on success or FALSE on error.

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

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