I want to select a record from moodle database

Question

I want to select id from moodle database where name is equal to some variable.I am trying this statement but so far its not working.

$questionname=  $DB->get_record_sql('SELECT id 
                      FROM {question} WHERE name = ?', array($name));

Answer 1

$questionid = $DB->get_field('question', 'id', array('name' => $name));

https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Data_manipulation_API#Getting_a_particular_field_value_from_one_record