> If the contact_id is the primary key, you could also use that as array > index, which would automatically filter duplicates. Thanks for this, it's so obvious I didn't see it. I was adding items to the array with $array[] = $contact when I could have just as easily used $array[$contact['id']] = $contact; Cheerios, Marc -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php