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Originally Posted by FreshFroot

As for the vB database function, which one is that? Are you refering to "$vbulletin->-db" Because if so, I tried that and got the same error.

Yeah, that's what I meant. There probably isn't any reason you can't use mysql functions directly, but using vbulletin functions you probably had the same problem for the same reason - you needed to call $db->fetch_array() on your result. But if you know you only want one row you can use $db->query_first and what you get back will be an array with the column names as keys. So your code would be

$result = $db->query_first($the_username);
$mrs_username = $result['username'];