[RESOLVED] says column is empty, but is not

I have the following

[code=php]$aomcheck = “SELECT accesslvl FROM users WHERE username=’$username'”;
$aomcheckresult = mysql_query($aomcheck);
echo “Access Level: “.$aomcheckresult;[/code]

, and I have already connected and everything to the sql db. Anyways when I run this it returns the result Access Level: Resource id #3 which I learned recently that that meant that the table was empty, but it is not. $username is set correctly, all table names and everything is correct. I have personally checked more than once, to insure that the information is in fact there, but it continues to echo out that, any help here? Thanks.

[b]EDIT[/b]: I also tried to use

[code=php]$aomcheckresult = mysql_query(“SELECT accesslvl FROM users WHERE username=’$username'”);
$aomrow = mysql_fetch_array($aomcheckresult);[/code]

and then echoing out

[code=php]echo $aomrow[‘aomcheckresult’];[/code]

but that did not work either. The reason I tried this was because it worked for me recently in a very similar thing(last visit). Anyways, is there something wrong with that code or what. Again, Thanks.

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