# PHP Query Help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-query-help/155597>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [July 19, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-query-help/155597 "2005-07-19T01:57:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![DariusMonsef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@DariusMonsef](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DariusMonsef)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-query-help/155597/1 "2005-07-19T01:57:49Z")

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Howdy.

I’m trying t get pHP working on my server and i know about as much about PHP as I do women. looks nice and i want to play with it but don’t understand it at all.

so.

I need a very simple select and output from a mysql table.

table name is prettytable, column to get at is prettyname.

then an output of prettyname.

thank you in advance for your help.