Print MySQL queries results with PHP in HTML pages

Question

I have a simple MySQL query : SELECT COUNT(column_name) FROM my_table

How to print results (in html pages) with PHP in a preexisting DB connection? Sorry for this stupid answer, I'm just learning PHP :(

Answer 1

$query = "SELECT COUNT(column_name) AS count FROM my_table";
$sql = mysql_query($query);
$result = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql);
echo "<p>" . $result['count'] . "</p>";

Should do the job.

Note: I used AS count in order to access it easier in the associative array.

Answer 2

simplistically

<?
//Connect to the database
$sql = "SELECT COUNT(column_name) as total FROM my_table";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
$row = mysql_fetch_array($sql);
echo $row['total'];
?>

Answer 3

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(column_name) AS count FROM my_table");
$result = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql);
echo '<p>'. $result['count'] .'</p>';