How to get the result of a select count(*) query in PHP?

Question

I have this query to use in PHP:

mysql_query(\"select count(*) from registeredUsers where email=\".$_SESSION[\"username\"]);

When I use e

Answer 1

mysql_query() returns a resource used to get information from the result set. Use a function such as mysql_fetch_array() to retrieve rows from the result set. In this case, there will only be one row.