Basic db calls with php

[businessman332211@hotmail.com]

EDIT- SOLVED THANKS FOR ALL THE HELPI am trying to do some basic db calls through php but I don't know how, how do I get this to format out, like how do I get a basic function call to atleast display then I can start working onlearning how to get it formatted looking nicer.http://www.betterloans.com/ratesheet.php?P...fc83c22e66f2435

[businessman332211@hotmail.com]

I tried using$section1 = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `arm3_1_417upto` LIMIT 0 , 30");echo "{$section1}";and it just saidresource #2 as the output

[ThePsion5]

The problem is that results from a database in PHP are returned not as text but at a 'resource', a block of data representing the results you've recieved. To get the information out of it you need to use PHP's mysql functions, like mysql_num_rows() and mysql_fetch_array() and such. They're documented on PHP's website.

[rms230]

wot you tying to do to the database just select a colum because that can be done very easy like SELCT columname FROM databasename