It suppresses error messages and warnings when you call a function, regardless of your level of error reporting. So yeah, it is like batch programming :) -- Josh -----Original Message----- From: Marcus Fleige [mailto:marcus.fleige@gmx.de] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 7:05 PM To: PHP-Mailinglist Subject: Newbie-Question: What's that @? hi there, i've got a general question about php-scripts: whats the difference between @mysql_query($query) and @mysql_query($query)? is it the same as in batch programming? like, ignore all return messages? thanks and greetings from germany, marcus -- ^v^ thekengoth@darkdoom.de -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php