Can someone help with how to make this work, trying to get the number of rows but am getting the "trying to get property of non-object" Code----------------- $query = "select blah, blah, blah from table where ".$type." like '%".$name."%'"; $result = mysql_query($query); $num_results = $result->num_rows; <---------------this is the line with error -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php