$wpdb->wp_users returning empty value for

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I have a code Example: 

function custom_func(){
    global $wpdb;
    $wpdb->flush();     //tried with and without this line
    $getTest = 'SELECT * FROM $wpdb->wp_users LIMIT 1';
    $arrayReturned = $wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare($getTest));
}

From what I’ve read I thought that $wpdb->wp_users is meant to have returned the database name and table name like so dbName.tableName; but it just returns an empty value.

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I’ve tried: 

$getTest = 'SELECT * FROM $wpdb->wp_users LIMIT 1';

which shows as the following to wordpress: 

SELECT * FROM $wpdb->wp_users LIMIT 1

and 

$getTest = 'SELECT * FROM '.$wpdb->wp_users.' LIMIT 1';

which shows as the following to wordpress: 

SELECT * FROM  LIMIT 1

I can’t fathom why this isn’t working since this is all based on literature from the wordpress codex, any thoughts?

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  1. First of all why you would need custom query for this basic functionality to get users, when WordPress has inbuilt function get_users().

    Anyway for custom query, table name is defined as 

    function custom_func(){
 global $wpdb;
 $getTest = "SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users LIMIT 1";
 $arrayReturned = $wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare($getTest));
}

    It’s $wpdb->users or $wpdb->post and not $wpdb->wp_users, what you use for a table name, in custom queries.

    Also I’ve used the double quotes ” “ for query and not single quotes ‘ ‘, you can read here