[Modern AAC] PHP error

[soul4soul]

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Notice

Message: Undefined index: id

what i have

$account = $_SESSION['id'];

btw i want the accountid to be stored in account. i have also tried

$account = (int)($_GET['account']);

edit: alright i got it to work using this but i feel like it was a really stupid way to go about it. so can anyone help me?

	$ots = POT::getInstance();
	$ots->connect(POT::DB_MYSQL, connection());
	$SQL = $ots->getDBHandle();
	$SQL = $ots->getDBHandle();
	$accountName = $_SESSION['name'];
	foreach($SQL->query('SELECT * FROM accounts WHERE name="'.$accountName.'"') as $data)
		{
		$account=$data['id'];
		}