Dell 4500, mem 1g, disk 45g, mhz 2g, Mysql-3.23.54a-linux-i686, PHP-4.30, httpd_2.0.44 Thanks to Paul DuBois, Roger Davis, Helen Sallee, Ronan Chilvers, and Edward Dudlik for thier response to my question. I've included the a (one of many?) snippit of code that I've decided to use as a pattern for a (class) to be developed. Thanks again: Ed anderson <html><head><title>sample.php</title></head> <body> sample.php <BR> see page 405 "msql cookbook" for code used to develop $h_nrows <BR> <?php # $mysql_connect = mysql_connect("localhost", "root") or die ("mysql_connect $mysql_connect\n"); mysql_select_db("mysql", $mysql_connect) or die ("mysql_select_db $mysql_connect\n"); # $h_id1 = "3"; $h_id2 = "4"; $h_id3 = "5"; $t = "<td>"; $tn = "</td>"; $r = "<tr>"; $rn = "</tr>"; # $h_query = " SELECT * FROM employees WHERE id=$h_id1 OR id=$h_id2 OR id=$h_id3"; printf("mysql_query: $h_query<br>\n"); # $h_result_id = mysql_query($h_query, $mysql_connect); if(! $h_result_id) die (" mysql_query h $mysql_connect\n"); $h_nrows = @mysql_num_rows ($h_result_id); # if ($h_nrows == 0) print ("Note: h query has no result set\n"); $dat_h_id = mysql_result($h_result_id,$i,"id"); $dat_first = mysql_result($h_result_id,$i,"first"); $dat_last = mysql_result($h_result_id,$i,"last"); # # # echo "<table border=1 cellspacing=0>"; for ($i = 0; $i < $h_nrows; $i++) { echo "$r"; $dat_h_id = mysql_result($h_result_id,$i,"id"); echo "$t $dat_h_id$tn"; $dat_first = mysql_result($h_result_id,$i,"first"); echo "$t $dat_first$tn"; $dat_last = mysql_result($h_result_id,$i,"last"); echo "$t $dat_last $tn"; echo "$t $i $tn"; echo "$t $h_nrows $tn"; echo "$rn"; } echo "</table>"; # ?> <BR> sample.php end <BR><BR> </body> </html> using mozilla browser - http://127.0.0.1/sample.php sample.php see page 405 "msql cookbook" code used to develop $h_nrows mysql_query: SELECT * FROM employees WHERE id=3 OR id=4 OR id=5 3 Brad Johnson 0 3 4 aa bb 1 3 5 WW EE 2 3 sample.php end -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php