Ok, here is what I am trying to do. I know that it is very common. Simplified: I have a tabble of users with an AUTHORIZE field [type ENUM - Yes or No]. They sign up and once I authorize them. I pull up all of the records and display them something like this: User Name - Authorize: [] Yes [] No So i run my select thru a while loop and end up with User Name - Authorize: [] Yes [] No User2 Name - Authorize: [] Yes [] No User3 Name - Authorize: [] Yes [] No User4 Name - Authorize: [] Yes [] No The settings already in the database should show. So that either Yes or No is checked for each user. so here is the code I use: if ($authorize == "Y") { $chk_authorize = "Authorized: <input type=\"radio\" name=\"authorize\" value=\"Y\" checked>Yes <input type=\"radio\" name=\"authorize\" value=\"N\">No"; } else { $chk_authorize = "Authorized: <input type=\"radio\" name=\"authorize\" value=\"Y\">Yes <input type=\"radio\" name=\"authorize\" value=\"N\" checked>No"; } This works EXCEPT only the last field displays a checked radio button [because the names are all the same. How can do this so that each record displays current authorization setting? After this I need to be able to SUBMIT the info to UPDATE the table. I understand that I will have to execute a number of update statements ... But how can I create these statements that tie the correct username and AUTHORIZE value together? thanks much, olinux _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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]