Printing result of mysql query from variable - php

Question

So I wrote this earlier (in php), but everytime I try echo $test", I just get back resource id 5. Does anyone know how to actually print out the mysql query from the variable?
$dave= mysql_query("SELECT order_date, no_of_items, shipping_charge, SUM(total_order_amount) as test FROM `orders` WHERE DATE(`order_date`) = DATE(NOW()) GROUP BY DATE(`order_date`)") or die(mysql_error());
print $dave;

Answer 1

This will print out the query:
$query = "SELECT order_date, no_of_items, shipping_charge, SUM(total_order_amount) as test FROM `orders` WHERE DATE(`order_date`) = DATE(NOW()) GROUP BY DATE(`order_date`)";
$dave= mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
print $query;
This will print out the results:
$query = "SELECT order_date, no_of_items, shipping_charge, SUM(total_order_amount) as test FROM `orders` WHERE DATE(`order_date`) = DATE(NOW()) GROUP BY DATE(`order_date`)";
$dave= mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($dave)){
foreach($row as $cname => $cvalue){
print "$cname: $cvalue\t";
}
print "\r\n";
}

Answer 2

well you are returning an array of items from the database. so you need something like this.
$dave= mysql_query("SELECT order_date, no_of_items, shipping_charge,
SUM(total_order_amount) as test FROM `orders`
WHERE DATE(`order_date`) = DATE(NOW()) GROUP BY DATE(`order_date`)")
or die(mysql_error());
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($dave)) {
echo $row['order_date'];
echo $row['no_of_items'];
echo $row['shipping_charge'];
echo $row['test '];
}

Answer 3

From php docs:
For SELECT, SHOW, DESCRIBE, EXPLAIN and other statements returning
resultset, mysql_query() returns a resource on success, or FALSE on
error.
For other type of SQL statements, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, DROP, etc,
mysql_query() returns TRUE on success or FALSE on error.
The returned result resource should be passed to mysql_fetch_array(),
and other functions for dealing with result tables, to access the
returned data.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-query.php

Answer 4

$sql = "SELECT * FROM table_name ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT 1";
$records = mysql_query($sql);
you can change
LIMIT 1
to
LIMIT any number you want
This will show you the last INSERTED row first.