Floyd Resler wrote: > As for as I know, MySQL simply just doesn't report a row as being affected if nothing has changed in it. To get the number of matched rows, try doing a SELECT query before you do the UPDATE query. I don't know if that will produce the results you're looking for, but it might. > Yeah, the extra select is what I was hoping to avoid :-P The MySQL client will return both the number of rows matched and the number of rows affected by the query; I was hoping perhaps the PHP API offered a way for me to do the same. Ah well... Thanks! James -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php