There has to be an easier way to do this. I have a page with a list of 29 options utilizing checkboxes. The options that are checked get put into a mysql table as a 1 and the options not checked get entered as a 0. So the table looks like this id cs01 cs02 cs03 cs04 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 The problem I'm running into is getting these things back out of the table. I only want the columns where the answer is a 1. What I'm doing right now looks like this: $getPos = "SELECT * FROM pos WHERE id = '$id'"; $getPos_res = mysql_query($getPos,$conn) or die(mysql_error()); while ($getPos_info= mysql_fetch_array($getPos_res)) { $getPos_cs01 = $getPos_info['cs01']; $getPos_cs02 = $getPos_info['cs02']; $getPos_cs03 = $getPos_info['cs03']; $getPos_cs04 = $getPos_info['cs04']; } Then I use a series of IF statements to filter out the variables containing a 0 so that on another page I can view only the options they selected and leave out the ones they didn't. Obviously this takes a crazy amount of code to accomplish this way. Is there some way, using something like mysql_fetch_array or in my SELECT statement, to just get the data containing a 1? Or can someone propose an entirely different way of accomplishing the same thing? Thanks! -- DeadTOm Http://www.mtlaners.org ------------------------ "The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." -General George S Patton -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php