[Mark Hensler]

You have to define $stat as global in your function,

PHP Code:

function pullstats($type)
{
    global $stat;
    $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM user WHERE userid=1") or die ("Query Failed");
    $stat[$type]= mysql_result($result, 0, $type);
}

pullstats("username");
print $stat["username"]; 


or use the return value to assign it to a var.

PHP Code:

function pullstats($type)
{
    $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM user WHERE userid=1") or die ("Query Failed");
    return mysql_result($result, 0, $type);
}

print pullstats("username");