public static int CheckForGroupGID(string group) { int retint = -1; using (var dbCon = new MySQLDatabaseConnection(System.Net.IPAddress.Parse("127.0.0.1"), "exceeddb")) { dbCon.Username = "******"; dbCon.Password = "******"; dbCon.Connect(); string command = string.Format("SELECT `groupid` FROM `groupDB` WHERE `groupname`='{0}'", group); retint = dbCon.SearchForInt(command, "groupid"); command = string.Empty; dbCon.Close(); } return(retint); }