title: How to use PHP display data of last insert row of a specific column
body: <p>I have a table in database with 2 columns, id(auto increment) and name.</p>
  
  <pre><code>id|name
  --|----
  1 |John
  2 |Jeff
  3 |Jack 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I wish to show the last insert name in my webpage so I can <code>echo "The last person is $last_name";</code></p>
  
  <p>I try retrieve the data by using following command, but it shows nothing.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$last_name = mysqli_query($conn, 'SELECT name FROM namelist ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Someone please help?
  Thank you.</p>