On Saturday 13 November 2004 20:25, GH wrote: > Explain Bind Vars please... Thanks It is a technique for preparing an SQL statement with placeholders which can then be substituted with values when the statement is executed. It will be unavailable to you unless you are using MySQL 4.1.3 or above and are using the mysqli library. See: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysqli-prepare.php Note, this is a common technique in database programming but one which MySQL is only just starting to adopt... Simon -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Simon Rees | srees@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php