Your echo needs to be in the while loop... <>< Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Alex Francis [mailto:afrancis@camerondesign.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:00 AM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Now not selecting enough I am using the following script which I have used with minor variations, several times before without any trouble. I have 3 items in my database but the script only returns 1. I can change which one by leaving off the order by filter, but can't get all three. Where am I going wrong. (PHP and MySQL). $SQL = 'SELECT id, DATE_FORMAT(meetingdate, "%D %M %Y")as mtgdate FROM boardprevious order by meetingdate desc '; // execute SQL statement $ret = mysql_db_query($dbname,$SQL,$link); if (!$ret) { echo( mysql_error()); } else { // retrieve values while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($ret)) { $meetingdate = $row[mtgdate]; $id = $row[id]; } } echo ("<h5><A HREF=\"minutes_detail.php?id=$id\">$meetingdate</A></h5>"); -- 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