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		leftnode on Nov 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Last PHP PDO Library You Will Ever Need fetch_column() does essentially that. You can pass in the column number you want fetched, in this case, it would be the 0th column.

ralmeida on Nov 4, 2011 [–]

I know. I would at least add it as an alias to $fetch_column(0), out of sheer readability preciosism =D

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