Tutorial Return Only One Variable from MySQL Query
Function
function mysql_get_var($query,$y=0){
$res = mysql_query($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_array($res);
mysql_free_result($res);
$rec = $row[$y];
return $rec;
}
Usage
$name = mysql_get_var("SELECT name from people where email = 'roger@freekrai.net'");
Will return the name field, so what gets returned will be "Roger" (if that was my name in the database).