> this is bugging me. I have tried everything and I cant develop > the code without an error. Can someone plese write me simple code > that will go through a table and print 3 collums of that table? I > cant figure it out I don't know which database you're using but say for example it was MySQL here's a very quick and dirty example .... <? $link = mysql_connect('localhost','user','password') or die(mysql_error()); if (mysql_select_db('mydatabase',$link)) { $rs = mysql_query('select col1, col2, col3 from mytable') or die (mysql_error()); $num = mysql_num_rows($rs); for ($i=0;$i<$num;$i++) { $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs); echo 'Col 1: '.$row['col1'].' Col 2: '.$row['col2'].' Col 3: '.$row['col3'].'<br />'; } } mysql_close($link); ?> -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php