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Howdy List, I am a little confused in incorporating a drop down menu into my select statement. I have a very simple 1 table database that contains my DVD collection. Right now - very simply it connects to the database, and then produces the results of the search based on a <? mysql_connect("localhost","name","password"); mysql_select_db("oldmovies"); $result = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM movies"); while($r=mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $movie_number=$r["movie_number"]; $movie_name=$r["movie_name"]; $genre=$r["genre"]; $star1=$r["star1"]; $star2=$r["star2"]; $star3=$r["star3"]; $director=$r["director"]; $brief_synopsis=$r["brief_synopsis"]; $imdb_link=$r["imdb_link"]; ?> This then produces the results onto the page in the tables that I have formatted. This was fine when I only had 50 or so dvd's - I am nearing the 500 mark, and it is WAY past time to add a search This is where I get lost. I can get into mysql monitor, and I can pull out using SELECT * FROM movies WHERE genre LIKE ******* And then I have a selection of Genre's that I can enter to generate the results. What I am trying to do is incorporate some selection drop down menus that would make the search process easier. Example: search for movies where {dropdown1} is {equal or like} Dropdown 1 would be my first criteria: movie name, director, lead actor, genre. The equal or like would be a standard textfield to be filled in. I hope that I am making sense here. If anybody can shed some light onto a confused newbie (the php script above was written at my old place of employment for me - otherwise I could ask them) it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Andrew ------------------------------------------------------ "Come to the edge, Life said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, Life said. They came. It pushed them...and they FLEW." -Guillaume Apollinaire 1870-1918 ------------------------------------------------------- "Once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you long to return."