renojim

  Thanks all for getting me straightened out - great responses. I'm beginning to get a clue.

Not new to programming, but an infant in PHP. I'm using the following code to get a value from a mySql table. The table has seven columns, one row, field Ronum is mediumint with a value of 1 in it and is the primary key. The following code runs fine, but when I get to the echo row/ronum at the bottom, $row contains only "ARRAY", and $ronum is blank. Don't get it.: <?php $user="root"; $host="localhost"; $password=""; $database = "Vshop";   $connection = mysql_connect($host,$user,$password)     or die ("couldn't connect to server");   $db = mysql_select_db($database,$connection)     or die ("Couldn't select database"); {   $query = "Select Ronum From ro"; } $result = mysql_query($query)     or die ("Couldn't execute query."); $row = mysql_fetch_array($result,MYSQL_NUM); extract ($row); echo "$row"; echo "$ronum"; ?>   Any help is greatly appreciated.