Tristan Pretty wrote: > I'll then make a page that looks like this: > > file name: User(s) > 12.doc user@xxxxxxxxxxx (12 times) > bob@xxxxxxxx (1 times) > bush@xxxxxx (2 times) > etc...... > > I'll make the email addresses/file name links to detailed info, but I'm > fine with doing that... > > Once I see a few Joins in action based on what I'm trying to do, I'll get > it.. I'm self taught (as most of us are right?) and learn better from real > life example than books... > > Please find my table structure below... > > =============================== > > // stores only file id, user id and date etc... > CREATE TABLE `captures` ( > `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, > `user_id` int(11) NOT NULL default '0', > `date` date NOT NULL default '0000-00-00', > `file_id` int(8) NOT NULL default '0', > `page_id` int(11) NOT NULL default '0', > `ip` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > PRIMARY KEY (`id`) > ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=22 ; > > // all data pertainign to the file > CREATE TABLE `files` ( > `file_master_bu` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `id` int(8) NOT NULL auto_increment, > `uploaded_by` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `uploaded_date` date NOT NULL default '0000-00-00', > `edited_by` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `edited_date` date NOT NULL default '0000-00-00', > `file_title` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `file_name` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `file_cat` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `file_type` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `file_desc` text NOT NULL, > PRIMARY KEY (`id`) > ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=19 ; > > // the users who fill out forms, are put here. I do a search each download > to see if they're in the database already, based on email address... but > that's kinda irrelevent here... ;-) > CREATE TABLE `users` ( > `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, > `salutation` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `forename` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `surname` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `email` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `tel` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `fax` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `company` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `job_title` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `street` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `street2` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `city` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `zip` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `state` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `country` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `hear` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `us_opt` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > `eu_opt` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > PRIMARY KEY (`id`) > ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=13 ; select count(captures.id)file_name,email from capture,files,users where users.id=captures.user_id and files.id=captures.file_id group by file_name; That /may/ do it. -- kae verens http://verens.com/ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php