How to Query an DB

[xProteuSx]

I am really confused as to how to query a MySQL database.  I have had several examples that work, each somehow different, yet when I try to adapt these examples to new situations, I cannot get them to work.  Really, I am getting frustrated.  Maybe someone can explain this in idiot-proof terms, so that I may be enlightened ... (PLEASE!!!)

So here is the sample table named PEOPLE (3 columns (id, username, email, respectively), 5 rows):


ID=1  username=Bob  email=bob@hotmail.com
ID=2  username=Sue  email=sue@hotmail.com
ID=3  username=Joe  email=joe@hotmail.com
ID=4  username=Moe  email=moe@hotmail.com
ID=5  username=Sam  email=sam@hotmail.com

If I want to find the e-mail of the row with ID=2 I would enter the following:

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$emailquery = "SELECT email FROM `people` WHERE `id` LIKE '2'";
$email_result = mysql_query($emailquery) or die ("The query caused the following error:<br><br>" . mysql_error());
$email_given = mysql_fetch_assoc ($email_result);
echo $email_given['users_email'];
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This should have the output "sue@hotmail.com" right?




If I want to find the username of the row with email=sam@hotmail.com I would enter the following:

[code]
$usernamequery = "SELECT username FROM `people` WHERE `email` LIKE 'sam@hotmail.com'";
$username_result = mysql_query($usernamequery) or die ("The query caused the following error:<br><br>" . mysql_error());
$username_given = mysql_fetch_assoc ($username_result);
echo $username_given['users_username'];
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This should have the output "Sam" right?

Please, I am stuck and I cannot figure this out ...

[joshi_v]

Well! The querying part weas right.but not displaying the result to browser.

[code]
<?php

$emailquery = "SELECT email FROM `people` WHERE `id` LIKE '2'"; # Here it will exact result if you use WHERE id = '2'.
$email_result = mysql_query($emailquery) or die ("The query caused the following error:<br><br>" . mysql_error());
$email_given = mysql_fetch_assoc ($email_result);
echo $email_given['users_email']; # this is where you are doing mistake.

# it should be
echo $email_given['email']; # this 'email' is the value ,for what you are querying the DB. you should use the same name for the fieldnames.

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?>
the same will do for second part.


Regards
Joshi.