> Thanks Paul, that was a much better explanation than the one I was > attempting. I'm guessing the OP was being thrown off by the colons in > the SELECT statement above. I can see how those could look like > comments to someone not familiar with PDO and named parameters. > It wasn't the colons being mistaken for comments that threw me off, I realized that they were not comments. But being unfamiliar with PDO and named parameters I did not understand exactly what was happening. I will try to google some more information on PDO now. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php