Get column value based on another columns value

Question

Ok so if the title made any sense, I have an order form. I want the user to be able to search for their orders by the order number. Then I want to pull any info from that. So

ID | Name | Date
01 | John Smith | 12-13-11

If I query for an ID of 01, I want to be able to see the name John Smith. How can I do it? This doesn't give me what I want:

$name = "SELECT name FROM order WHERE id = '$prof'" . mysql_real_escape_string($prof) . "'";

should the name after SELECT be an *? Thanks!

Answer 1

Try this:

$query = "SELECT name FROM `order` WHERE id = '" . mysql_real_escape_string($prof) . "'";

Note that order is a reserved word in MySQL and should be surrounded by backticks.