Terion wrote: > Hey Everyone, been steaming right along for a couple days but now I'm stuck > on writing a search function, could you all take a look at it and see what > it could be, I will mark the line throwing the error in red, I did try just > commenting out that line and searching for a record by OrderID that I know > is there but it does not return anything , I am trying to search several > tables in one db: you can add some code to get more error information: <?php session_start(); error_reporting(E_ALL); include("inc/dbconn_open.php"); function error_mysql($query) { die ("Error <b>".mysql_errno().": ".mysql_error()."</b> <br>SQL query: <b>".$query."</b>"); } // ...then you can end your last line with this: $result = mysql_query($sql) or error_mysql($sql); hope it helps, -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php