select and echo a single field from mysql db using PHP

Question

Im trying to select the title column from a particular row

$eventid = $_GET[\'id\'];
$field = $_GET[\'field\'];
$result = mysql_query(\"SELECT $field FROM `event         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

echo mysql_result($result, 0);

This is enough because you are only fetching one field of one row.