Read one column from one row from a MySQL database

Question

Is there a quick and dirty way to get the value of one column from one row? Right now I use something like this:

$result = mysql_query(\"SELECT value FROM ta         


        

Answer 1

Do u want this?

$output = array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
    $output[] = $row['value'];
}
return $output;

Answer 2

use this hacker)

$result = mysql_result(mysql_query("SELECT value FROM table WHERE row_id='1'"), 0);

Answer 3

if you want it to return only one value use the limit keyword

/* Limits Results to 1 */
$result = mysql_query("SELECT value FROM table WHERE row_id='1' LIMIT 1;");
$row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)
echo $row['value'];

Answer 4

use this:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT value FROM table WHERE row_id='1'");
return mysql_result($result, 0);

Answer 5

You can use GROUP_CONCAT ( http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/group-by-functions.html#function_group-concat ) function to make them into one field.

Answer 6

What you should look for is an encapsulation mecanism. For example you could create a classe User that would correspond to a rows of SQL table "user". Then you could get his id just with a single line:

$user->getID();

You could also create a class that would aggregate all the user and then use something like this:

$collection->getUserID("3435563");

But really there isn't a simpler way to do it in my knowledge.