Pull out info by id #

[Dimava]

i have a table called articles with 2 columns, id (which is an auto increased number) and a column called description

now lets say I want to 'print' the description for the row with id 12 how can i do this?

thanks

-Dimava

[jeffct]

$result = mysql_query("SELECT description FROM articles WHERE id=12");

$description = mysql_result($result, 0);

echo $description; 

[megahard]

$result=mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("SELECT * FROM articles WHERE id=12"));
echo "ID number: $result[id] produces $result[description]";