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

Try this:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT value FROM table WHERE row_id='1'");
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);
return $row[0];

Answer 2

Create a simple function to contain your lookup-code, which you can call for your database lookups in a single statement.