it was as complete as need be to demonstrate my dilemma, as Richard has discovered above "Frank Arensmeier" <farensmeier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7CFB015A-C530-4712-9EBC-FBDF5B0EDB06@xxxxxxxxxxxx 23 mar 2011 kl. 02.42 skrev Jim Giner: > ok - here's the code in question. > $q = 'select * from director_records '; > $qrslt = mysql_query($q); > $rows = mysql_num_rows($qrslt); > for ($i=0; $i<$rows; $i++) > { > $j = $i+1; > $row = mysql_fetch_array($qrslt); > echo $j.'-'.$row['userid']; > if ($row['user_priv']<> "") > echo ' ('.$row['user_priv'].')
'; > else > echo '
'; > } > > > The output I get is: > > > 1-smith5 > f-ginerjm (M) > g-smith8 > > While the alpha parts are valid, the index is only correct for the first > one > (0) obviously. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > Why not try some basic debugging strategies and see what you get? Try: for ($i=0; $i<$rows; $i++) { var_dump($i); $j = $i+1; $row = mysql_fetch_array($qrslt); echo $j.'-'.$row['userid']; var_dump($j); if ($row['user_priv']<> "") echo ' ('.$row['user_priv'].')
'; else echo '
'; } The output you've posted, that's rendered output, right? What's the raw output? By the way, the code snippet you gave us is not complete. Is there anything else? As Dan noticed earlier, judging from that code snippet only, there must be something else funky going on. /frank -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php