Try this: $query="select max(id) as id from bc_topic";
Leave the rest the same. I'm not so sure that the max(id) selection will populate a column named id necessarily (in fact, I think it doesn't). That may be your problem. Chris Phil Schwarzmann wrote: >Here is my code... > >$query = "SELECT max(id) FROM bc_topic"; >$result = mysql_query($query); >$temp = mysql_result($result, 0, "id"); <- this is line 8 >echo $temp[id]; > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php