db questions and newbie...

I have lots of questions and am new to the list... so alas I hope I'm posting to the correct area. In PHP and MySQL... can you import and export to flat files? For Example. I want to export a series of vars, IE: Name, Age, State Bill 25 NY So that in a file, it will appear like so: Bill|25|NY With one record per line, separated by a delimiter? And then import those record by being able to set a filter to sort all people from NY or all people that are 25 years old. Also, I've been trying to playing around with PHP and MySQL. I haven't found a great tutorial. Anyone know of a good link? I'm comfortable somewhat with the myphpadmin to manage the mysql db, but other than that, I haven't found anything simple that goes indepth including: Sorting records IE... alphabetizing certain fields or sorting them by descending etc. AND I haven't found much reference on DB locking to prevent file corruption. Any help to these issues would be great! -Matt -- Matt Zur mattz@zurnet.com http://www.zurnet.com Need a Web Site??? - Visit... www.zurnet.com 1997 - 2002 - 5th Anniversary!!!