i am using following coding $a1 = $_POST['ch1']; $a2 = $_POST['ch2']; $a3 = $_POST['ch3']; if ($a1 or $a2 or $a3) { $query = "SELECT $a1, $a2, $a3 FROM form"; $result=@mysql_query ($query); } Enter_Date<input type="checkbox" name="ch1" value="Enter_Date"> Opening_Units<input type="checkbox" name="ch2" value="Opening_Units"> Unit_Consumed<input type="checkbox" name="ch3" value="Unit_Consumed"> -----Original Message----- From: John Holmes [mailto:holmes072000@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 5:43 PM To: balwantsingh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Check Boxes balwantsingh wrote: > can somebody advise me > i want to use checkboxes on my website, i want that if user selects some > checkboxes (there will be more than 20 checkboxes), checkbox's value will be > stored in variables and than SELECT query command will be run using these > variables through PHP. but my problem is that in SELECT query command after > each column name comma (,) is required and if i use the same than it is > displaying "You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'FROM form' at line > 1" How about showing us some code.... kind of hard to help without that... -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals – www.phparch.com -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php