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I know this is pretty basic.. but for some reason this is not working for me. I have a form that stores a Facebook user's ID to check if they already submitted the form. I have the form that submits the User ID into the database working perfectly. Its just this part of checking if the User ID value exists in the database that is tripping me up.

Here's my code....

```
$user_id = 1234567890;

$checkUserID = mysql_query("SELECT fbUserID from submissions WHERE fbUserID = '$user_id'");

if ($checkUserID) {
echo "GTFO BRO";
} 

```

Whenever I do an "echo" on the $checkUserID variable I get this returned.. "Resource id #9"