I get the following error " PHP Notice: Undefined index: publisher in /var/www/testfunctions.php on line 65" and I have narrowed it down to what I *think* is a variable not being declared. Here is the code. //this will fetch the data from a table $d_series_fetch = $db->prepare("SELECT * FROM defaultseries WHERE publisher = :id"); $d_series_fetch ->bindParam(':id', $id); $id = 'DC Comics'; if ($d_series_fetch ->execute(array($_GET['publisher']))) { while ($row = $d_series_fetch -> fetch()) { print_r($row); } } I have prepared statements to open a connection and insert data and they work fine if I comment the preceding block out so I am fairly certain the problem is in there somewhere. I am using the latest version of PHP and am running Postgres8.4 as my db. If I use the isset() function and add an echo (code below) I get no errors but the query still doesn't work so again I am fairly certain that I am forgetting to declare something somewhere. //this will fetch the data from a table $d_series_fetch = $db->prepare("SELECT * FROM defaultseries WHERE publisher = :id"); $d_series_fetch ->bindParam(':id', $id); $id = 'DC Comics'; $publisher = ''; if (isset($_GET['publisher'])) { if ($d_series_fetch ->execute(array($_GET['publisher']))) { while ($row = $d_series_fetch -> fetch()) { print_r($row); } } } else {echo"this didn't work";} $dbh = null; //close the database connection by setting the PDO object to NULL } I am fairly new to PHP and have very little idea on PDO's so this is most likely a simple error(s) I know. Thank Matt