Barry, I can't see where you've created $topictest. Maybe, just before you define $queyr2, you should have the line
$topictest = $row[ "topcitext"]; I also think xp_stories_topicid should be xp_stories.topicid Try echo 'ing $query2 and see what is printed. Hope this helps, and that I've not missed something else. Miles Thompson At 02:05 AM 1/11/2002 +1300, Barry Rumsey wrote: >I'm trying to do the following query: > >$db_connect = mysql_connect($sqlhostname,$login,$password); >$base_selection = mysql_select_db($base,$db_connect); >$query = "SELECT DISTINCT * FROM xp_topics WHERE artist_count='artist' AND >topictext LIKE > 'A%' ORDER BY artist_count ASC limit 0,5"; $req = > mysql_query($query); > $res = mysql_num_rows($req); if ($res == 0) > > > { echo "</p> > <p><b>N/A</b>";} else { while($row = mysql_fetch_array($req)) >$query2 = "SELECT SUM(1) FROM xp_stories,xp_topics WHERE xp_topics.topicid >= xp_stories_topicid AND xp_topics.topictext = '$topictest'"; >$numtopic = mysql_query($query2) or die("Select Failed!"); >$numtopic = mysql_fetch_array($numtopic); > { extract($row); echo ("$topictext $numtopic[0]<br> > "); } } > ?> > >Which should return a name and then count how many topics by that person. > >If I leave out the query2 statement I do get a list of name, but I can't >get query2 to work. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]