Graham, I'm going to make those changes. Not sure if that was creating some crazy behaviour. See inline: --- Graham Cossey <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ................ > > { > if ($skill != '') // Has this skill been > entered? I don't know if I care if it's been entered. My main concern would be to make sure that if a $skill was entered, then a matching $skys and $slus should be: skills[0]-baker skys[0]-7 slus[0]-2002 but wouldn't want skill[0]-baker skys[1]-7 slus[2]-2002 In other words I need to figure out how to check that each "line" is complete. But~ right now, it is matching all the values/inputs correctly. If someone just chose a slus, seems the database won't take it. > { > // You may also want to check for sky & slu > entries Not sure why I would want too: > > //$result = mysql_query($query); > > $res6 = run_query($query); > > echo $query; > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > What does this output? It outputs the insert and values string. And it seems to print the iteration: INSERT INTO LurkProfiles_Skicerts (SkicertID, ProfileID, SkilCerts, NumYear, Lused) VALUES (null, 39, 'aaaaa', 2,1)INSERT INTO LurkProfiles_Skicerts (SkicertID, ProfileID, SkilCerts, NumYear, Lused) VALUES (null, 39, 'bbbbb', 3,2)INSERT INTO LurkProfiles_Skicerts (SkicertID, ProfileID, SkilCerts, NumYear, Lused) VALUES (null, 39, 'ccccc', 4,3)INSERT INTO LurkProfiles_Skicerts (SkicertID, ProfileID, SkilCerts, NumYear, Lused) VALUES (null, 39, 'ddddd', 5,4)INSERT INTO LurkProfiles_Skicerts (SkicertID, ProfileID, SkilCerts, NumYear, Lused) VALUES (null, 39, 'eeeee', 6,5)your insertions were successful > }// end if ($skill != '') This probably makes sense to add , perhaps that is why if I don't use all the elements for input I get a syntax error. Stuart -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php