Hi Gab Think your problem may be in the << 1st_field like studentID='$studentsID', >> part of your query which will prevent it running, obviously then returning a 0 value for the number of rows What exactly are you querying here? I assume you have a studentID column containing numeric student IDs - if so why the << 1st_field like >>? If the table contains a column named 1st_field by the look of your query it must also contain numeric student IDs - this is data duplication & generally considered to be bad database design practice. The LIKE expression is utilised to find something similar, so wasted with a value that is unique (as I presume a Student ID is). Also the correct syntax for LIKE usage is %string, matching any sequence of zero or more characters, or _string, matching a single character. Anyway, as to your non-running query, try removing << 1st_field like >> & see what happens Luck Mark
