Hi there, I am still attempting to get a display of the result of my two timestamp fields subtracted from one another in minutes and hours if needed. This is for a form and the timestamps are recorded when a user logs in [login_timestamp] and when the form is submitted[submit_timestamp]. The display still doesn't appear to be accurate and for some reason the results are displayed three times for each record underneath the results for one person. So it looks something like. Tom Thumb Answer 1 Answer 2 Answer 3 etc. [time 1] [time 2] [time 3] Sally Smith Answer 1 Answer 2 Answer 3 etc. [time 1] [time 2] [time 3] Bob Jones Answer 1 Answer 2 Answer 3 [time 1] [time 2] [time 3] time1,2,3 being for Tom Thumb, Sally Smith and Bob Jones respectively. My entire code for the form looks like this. <html> <head> <title>Exam Results</title </head> <body> <?php include("includes/functions.php"); ?> <h1 class="results">exam results</h1> <table id="results"> <tr><th>Candidate Name</th></tr> <?php ini_set("display_errors","1"); ERROR_REPORTING(E_ALL); $conn = mysql_connect("localhost","uname","pw"); if (!$conn) { echo "Unable to connect to DB: " . mysql_error(); exit; } if (!mysql_select_db("MyDB")) { echo "Unable to select mydbname: " . mysql_error(); exit; } $sql = "SELECT Responses.name,Answer1,Answer2,Answer3,Answer4,Answer5,Answer6,Answer7,Answer8,Answer9,Answer10,Answer11,Answer12 FROM Responses "; $result = mysql_query($sql); if (!$result) { echo "Could not successfully run query ($sql) from DB: " . mysql_error(); exit; } if (mysql_num_rows($result) == 0) { echo "No rows found, nothing to print so am exiting"; exit; } while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { echo "<tr><td class='name'>{$row['name']}</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td class='section'><strong>Section 1</strong></td></tr>"; for ($i =1;$i<9;++$i) { echo "<tr><td>{$row['Answer'.$i]}</td></tr>"; } echo "<tr><td class='section'><strong>Section 2</strong></td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>{$row['Answer10']}</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td class='section'><strong>Section 3</strong></td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>{$row['Answer11']}</td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td class='section'><strong>Section 4</strong></td></tr>"; echo "<tr><td>{$row['Answer12']}</td></tr>"; $sql_timestamp = "SELECT TIMESTAMPDIFF(SECOND,submit_timestamp,login_timestamp) as cTime FROM Responses LEFT JOIN Candidates USING (user_id)"; $result_timestamp = mysql_query($sql_timestamp); if (!$result_timestamp) { echo "Could not successfully run query ($sql_timestamp) from DB: " . mysql_error(); exit; } while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result_timestamp)){ $formatted_completion_time = formatTime($row['cTime']); echo "<tr><th class='complete'>Completion Time:</th></tr><tr><td>\n"; echo $formatted_completion_time; echo "</td></tr>"; } } mysql_free_result($result); ?> </table> </body> </html> and my function code for the subtracting of the two fields is here: <?php function formatTime($cTime){ if($cTime < 60){ //less than 1 minute show seconds $formatted_completion_time = date("s",$cTime)." seconds"; }elseif($cTime < 3600){ //1 hour $formatted_completion_time = date("i",$cTime)." minutes"; }elseif($cTime < 86400){ //24 hours $formatted_completion_time = date("H:i",$cTime)." hours"; }else{ $formatted_completion_time = round($cTime/86400,0)." days"; } return $formatted_completion_time; } ?> any assistance that can be provided is greatly appreciated. -- ::Bruce:: -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php