At 03:23 AM 7/10/2008, Thodoris wrote: >Why don't you work this around. Since you may do anything with strings in php using the (.) operator try this: > ><?php >$a = array('string1','string2'); >$str = implode("','",$a); >$str = "'".$str."'"; >print $str; >?> Thanks, but this is missing the entire point of my question, which is *can it be done with PDO prepared statements*. These solutions you're proposing do not involve PDO's prepared statements. I already know how to do SQL queries by hand. Anyway, per my latest message, I found where in the PHP manual it implies that PDO prepared statements cannot be used with the MySQL IN function, which speaks to my original question. Thanks for trying! - TK -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php