note 109782 added to class.mysqli-result

Converting an old project from using the mysql extension to the mysqli extension, I found the most annoying change to be the lack of a corresponding mysql_result function in mysqli. While mysql_result is a generally terrible function, it was useful for fetching a single result field *value* from a result set (for example, if looking up a user's ID). The behavior of mysql_result is approximated here, though you may want to name it something other than mysqli_result so as to avoid thinking it's an actual, built-in function. function mysqli_result($res, $row, $field=0) { $res->data_seek($row); $datarow = $res->fetch_array(); return $datarow[$field]; } Implementing it via the OO interface is left as an exercise to the reader. ---- Server IP: 192.41.42.26 Probable Submitter: 76.119.176.226 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.mysqli-result.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/109782 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109782/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109782/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109782/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109782/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109782/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109782/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/109782 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/109782 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php