Hi, Friday, November 1, 2002, 11:11:52 PM, you wrote: SJ> Sorry to keep on at you guys but this is really getting to me now!
SJ> I want to pull a shipping quantity (the very last record in the Db) into SJ> a page and am still having problems. Tried looping through the records SJ> and I can't seem to get it to return anything: SJ> function get_shipping($shippingvar) SJ> { SJ> $conn = db_connect(); SJ> $query = mysql_query("SELECT MAX(receipt_id) from receipts"); SJ> $myrow = mysql_fetch_row($query); SJ> $shippingvar = $myrow["shipping"]; SJ> return $shippingvar; SJ> } SJ> Surely it can't be much more complicated than that? SJ> Help please. Smoked 10 fags already! You need something like this (untested :) function get_shipping($shippingvar){ $shippingvar = 0; $conn = db_connect(); if(!$query = mysql_query("SELECT MAX(receipt_id) from receipts");){ echo 'Error: '.mysql_error().'<br>'; }else{ $shippingvar = mysql_result($query,0,0); } return $shippingvar; } -- regards, Tom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php