try
$something=settype(mysql_result($variable,0),"string");
----- Original Message -----
From: "daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Must results from MySQL fetches always be an Array??
> > This is sort of a "is there an easier/better way" kind of question. No
> > error or problem, but I'd like to know how others handle it.
> >
> > I'm fetching single elements of data from several tables, then piecing
> > it together. Here's an example of one element I need to fetch:
> >
> > $series = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("SELECT key2 FROM models WHERE
> > lang='$lang' AND recordname='$model'",$db));
> >
> > Now I realize that with this function $series will always be an array,
> > even if it contains just one element (which it does). What I'd like to
> > know is, can I write that statement so that $series is created just as a
> > string? (So that I don't have to write "$series = $series[0];"
> > immediately afterwards in order to treat $series as a $string.)
> >
> > ...Rene
>
> function mysql_get_one_field($stmt,$db) {
> $res = mysql_query($stmt,$db);
> $series = mysql_fetch_array($res);
> mysql_free_result($res);
>
> return $series[0];
> }
>
>
>
> Daniel J. Lashua
>
>
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