Hi all, Happy New Year. I'm working on an application and had a couple of related PHP/MySQL questions. 1. When I do a MySQL query, is there a way to get the returned columns in the query without fetching a row? Currently, what I'm doing is fetching a row of data and getting the keys from the array. I'd like to do it without fetching the row. Is this possible? 2. If #1 above is indeed possible, is this only possible when I get returned rows or can I do it when there are no matching rows in the query? Thanks for any help! -D. Israel dan@xxxxxxxx http://www.customcodebydan.com AIM: JudoDanIzz