Index: t3lib/class.t3lib_db.php
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--- t3lib/class.t3lib_db.php	(revision 9218)
+++ t3lib/class.t3lib_db.php	(revision )
@@ -365,6 +365,35 @@
 	}
 
 	/**
+	 * Creates and executes a SELECT SQL-statement AND gets a result set and returns an array with a single record in.
+	 * LIMIT is automatically set to 1 and can not be overridden
+	 *
+	 * @param	string		See exec_SELECTquery()
+	 * @param	string		See exec_SELECTquery()
+	 * @param	string		See exec_SELECTquery()
+	 * @param	string		See exec_SELECTquery()
+	 * @param	string		See exec_SELECTquery()
+	 * @param	boolean		If set, the result will be fetched with sql_fetch_assoc, else sql_fetch_row will be used.
+	 * @return	array		Single row.
+	 */
+	function exec_SELECTgetSingleRow($select_fields,$from_table,$where_clause,$groupBy='',$orderBy='',$numIndex=FALSE)	{
+		$res = $this->exec_SELECTquery($select_fields,$from_table,$where_clause,$groupBy,$orderBy,'1');
+		if ($this->debugOutput)	$this->debug('exec_SELECTquery');
+
+		if (!$this->sql_error())	{
+			$output = array();
+
+			if ($numIndex===TRUE)	{
+				$output = $this->sql_fetch_row($res);
+			} else {
+				$output = $this->sql_fetch_assoc($res);
+			}
+			$this->sql_free_result($res);
+		}
+		return $output;
+	}
+
+	/**
 	 * Counts the number of rows in a table.
 	 *
 	 * @param	string		$field: Name of the field to use in the COUNT() expression (e.g. '*')