Hello I am pleased if someone could explain me the behaviour since is wrong the following function call: ($row = & $result->fetchRow(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC, $_SESSION["searchFormVars"]["offset"]+$rowCounter)); as you will find them below. By the way, fetchRow() is a method from class DB(.php). However mysql_fetch_row() should have same functionality but the argument resp. the identity is different. I hardly try to do not mix up functionality from mysql- with db- members. mysql_select_db("knowledge", $link); $query = setupQuery($_SESSION["searchFormVars"]["search"]); $result=mysql_query($query); for ( $rowCounter = 0; ($rowCounter < SEARCH_ROWS) && (( $rowCounter + $_SESSION["searchFormVars"]["offset"]) < mysql_num_rows($result)) && ($row = $result->fetchRow(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC, $_SESSION["searchFormVars"]["offset"]+$rowCounter)); $rowCounter++) { Error message: Fatal error: Call to a member function fetchRow() on a non-object in C:\Xampp\xampp\htdocs\www2\knowledge_db\searchnew.php on line ... I am not shure that something should be wrong with the $result parameter since I have seen it in the PHP declaration and definition, see http://de.php.net/mysql_query below. I now that the return value of mysql_query is a boolean resp. a resource handler. In any case, I need the fetchRow functionality for correct work as listening to the rows on different pages. Another shorter possibility to print options of an ENUM as <select>-tag: <?php $result=mysql_query('SHOW COLUMNS FROM <your table> WHERE field=\'<you column>\''); while ($row=mysql_fetch_row($result)) { foreach(explode("','",substr($row[1],6,-2)) as $v) { print("<option>$v</option>"); } } ?> best regards, Georg