Hi there. Im making a kind of a messageboard and trying to save some time with the querys but i cant get it to work properly. I have two tables, one with some users and one with messages. Table : users +----------+----+ | username | id | +----------+----+ | user1 | 1 | | user2 | 2 | | user3 | 3 | +----------+----+ Table : messages +--------+---------+----+ | postid | replyid | id | +--------+---------+----+ | 1 | 2 | 1 | | 2 | 3 | 2 | | 1 | 0 | 3 | +--------+---------+----+ I have managed to create a query that selects row 1,2 but not row 3. I want mysql to return row 3 but with a NULL value on the reply id (the message dont have a reply when first posted). The output that im gettig follows... +-------+-------+ | post | reply | +-------+------ + | user1 | user2 | | user2 | user3 | +-------+-------+ The ouput that i would like to have... +-------+-------+ | post | reply | +-------+------ + | user1 | user2 | | user2 | user3 | | user1 | NULL | +-------+-------+ Thanks in advance. /Håkan
