I have looked for an answer for ages now, lots of similar questions but found no solutions yet...
Anyway, all I am trying to do is get the id of a user from the database using a mysqli_query, the query seems to work when I use it in phpmyadmin but doesn't when I use it as part of a php script.
$username = "bob";
$db = mysqli_connect("localhost", "username", "password", "user_data");
$sql1 = "select id from user_information where username='$username'";
$id = mysqli_query($db, $sql1) or die(mysql_error());
echo $id;
The database connection works fine, I am able to input data through php.
Any suggestions? (Anyone's help is greatly appreciated).