On Tuesday 24 February 2004 10:48, Mark Roberts wrote:
> I am trying to get a record count from a MySql database using the
> following:
>
> $reccount = @mysql_query("select count(*) from mytable where user =
> 'testuser');
>
> I try this from mysql and get the correct response ( 1 ).
>
> However, when I put this in an php script, $reccount returns a value of
> 'Resource id #5'.
>
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