Wow, Thank you! You appear to have gotten me 90% towards my mission final. mysql_select_db($database_ftn, $ftn); @extract($_POST); $query_Recordset1 = "SELECT * FROM lstng_tbl WHERE price_range = '$select1'"; echo $query_Recordset1; $query_limit_Recordset1 = sprintf("%s LIMIT %d, %d", $query_Recordset1, $startRow_Recordset1, $maxRows_Recordset1); $Recordset1 = mysql_query($query_limit_Recordset1, $ftn) or die(mysql_error()); $row_Recordset1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset1); <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="index_dev.php"> <label>market <select name="select1"> <OPTION value="1">Indiana</OPTION> <OPTION value="2">Wisconsin</OPTION> <OPTION value="3">Illinois</OPTION> <OPTION value="4">Michigan</OPTION> <OPTION value="5">Georgia</OPTION> <OPTION value="6">Florida</OPTION> </select> <input name="submit" type="submit" value="post"/> </label> </form> Works!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Sincerely, Brad -----Original Message----- From: Jim Lucas [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:57 PM To: BSumrall Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Looking for help with forms/variables and an array! BSumrall wrote: > It doesn't like the curly brackets either! > > Brad > if this is within PHP, the '{' and '}' are within double quotes (which they seem to be), These examples should all do the same thing. $query_Recordset1 = "SELECT * FROM lstng_tbl WHERE price_range = '$select1'"; $query_Recordset1 = "SELECT * FROM lstng_tbl WHERE price_range = '{$select1}'"; $query_Recordset1 = "SELECT * FROM lstng_tbl WHERE price_range = '".$select1."'"; echo $query_Recordset1; place an echo just after including the variable and see if you see the brackets in the statement. -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php