Hello Hope: On 9/8/05, hope <umeed921@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > how can i retrieve field names from a table(e.g products_attributes) > in ascending order??? > i need to display each of the fieldnames alongwith its datatype and length > on the page. I suppose you use Mysql: $result=mysql_query("SHOW COLUMNS FROM table",$db); if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) { while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) { $k[$row['Field']]=$row['Type']; } ksort($k); while (list($key,$value)=each($k)) echo "$key $value<br>\n"; } Pablo. -- Pablo M. Rivas. http://www.pmrivas.com http://www.r3soft.com.ar ----------------------------------------------------------- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php