Working with one row in a database

[saud]

I m trying to print a row from a sqlite3 database but I m getting the error
Catchable fatal error: Object of class PDOStatement could not be converted to string in /home/ /public_html/test/index.php on line 16

There is only one row with the counter value so I dont need any fetchall function, is there an way to display and work with one row.

<?php
  try
  {
    //open the database
    $db = new PDO('sqlite:Counter.db');

    //create the database
    $db->exec("CREATE TABLE Counter (Id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, Counter INTEGER)");    

    //insert some data...
    $db->exec("INSERT INTO Counter (Counter) VALUES (5000)");

    //now output the data to a simple html table...
    $result = $db->query('SELECT * FROM Counter WHERE Id=1');
    
    echo $result;
    

    // close the database connection
    $db = NULL;
  }
  catch(PDOException $e)
  {
    print 'Exception : '.$e->getMessage();
  }
?>

[ssystems]

What code is on line 16?