<?php
 // Once you have a valid DB Result object
 ...
 // Get each row of data on each iteration until
 // there is no more rows
 while ($row = $result->fetchRow()) {
     $id = $row[0];
 }
 ?>

<?php
 ...
 while ($result->fetchInto($row)) {
     $id = $row[0];
 }
 ?>

<?php
 $res = $db->query('select id, name, email from users');
 $row = $res->fetchRow($mode);

 //With $mode = DB_FETCHMODE_ORDERED
 //The default behavior is to return an ordered array.
 $row = array (
     0 => <column "id" data>,
     1 => <column "name" data>,
     2 => <column "email" data>
 );

 $id = $row[0];

 //With $mode = DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC
 //Returns an associative array with column names as array keys:
 $row = array (
     'id'    => <column "id" data>,
     'name'  => <column "name" data>,
     'email' => <column "email" data>
 );

 $id = $row['id'];

 //With $mode = DB_FETCHMODE_OBJECT
 //Returns a DB_row object with column names as properties:
 $row = db_row Object 
 (
     [id]    => <column "id" data>,
     [name]  => <column "name" data>,
     [email] => <column "email" data>
 )

 $id = $row->id;
 ?>

<?php
 ...
 // 1) Set the mode per call:
 while ($row = $result->fetchRow(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC)) {
     [..]
 }
 while ($result->fetchInto($row, DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC)) {
     [..]
 }

 // 2) Set the mode for all calls:
 $db = DB::connect($dsn);
 // this will set a default fetchmode for this Pear DB instance
 // (for all queries)
 $db->setFetchMode(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC);
 $result = $db->query(...);
 while ($row = $result->fetchRow()) {
     $id = $row['id'];
 }
 ?>

<?php
 ...
 // the row to start fetching
 $from = 50;
 // how many results per page
 $res_per_page = 10;
 // the last row to fetch for this page
 $to = $from + $res_per_page;
 foreach (range($from, $to) as $rownum) {
     if (!$row = $res->fetchrow($fetchmode, $rownum)) {
         break;
     }
     $id = $row[0];
     ....
 }
 ?>

<?php
 ...
 $result = $db->query('SELECT * FROM clients');
 while ($row = $result->fetchRow()) {
     ...
 }
 $result->free();
 ?>

<?php
 require_once 'DB.php';
 $db = DB::connect('pgsql://postgres@unix+localhost/clients_db');
 // -----------------------------------------------------------
 // getOne retrieves the first result of the first column
 // from a query
 $numrows = $db->getOne('select count(id) from clients');
 // -----------------------------------------------------------
 // getRow will fetch the first row and return it as an array
 $sql = 'select name, address, phone from clients where id=1';
 if (is_array($row = $db->getRow($sql))) {
     list($name, $address, $phone) = $row;
 }
 // -----------------------------------------------------------
 // getCol will return an array with the data of the
 // selected column. It accepts the column number to retrieve
 // as the second param.
 // The next sentence could return for example:
 // $all_client_names = array('Stig', 'Jon', 'Colin');
 $all_client_names = $db->getCol('select name from clients');
 // -----------------------------------------------------------
 // Other functions are: getAssoc() and getAll().
 // For the moment refer to their in-line documentation
 // at pear/DB/common.php
 // -----------------------------------------------------------
 ?>

<?php
 ...
 $db = DB::connect($dsn);
 $sql = 'select * from clients';
 $res = $db->query($sql);
 // Don't forget to check if the returned result from your
 // action is a Pear Error object. If you get a error message
 // like 'DB_error: database not capable', means that
 // your database backend doesn't support this action.
 //
 // Number of rows
 echo $res->numRows();
 // Number of cols
 echo $res->numCols();
 // Table Info
 print_r ($res->tableInfo());
 // Affected rows
 $sql = "delete from clients";
 // remember that this statement won't return a result object
 $db->query($sql);
 echo 'I have deleted ' . $db->affectedRows() . 'clients';
 ?>

<?php
 ...
 // Get an ID (if the sequence doesn't exist, it will be created)
 $id = $db->nextID('mySequence');

 // Use the ID in your INSERT query
 $res = $db->query("INSERT INTO myTable (id,text) VALUES ($id,'foo')");
 ...
 ?>