How-to pass informational mysql messages to the browser

Hello everyone, My PHP/mysql pages are working perfectly, the problem is users don't know if what they are doing is working. I have a system that adds and deletes tape id's from mysql via a PHP front end. I would like to pass the same success/failure messages that I would get if I performed the add/delete directly within mysql. For example, If I delete a tape from the db within mysql, after I hit enter I get the following message: mysql> delete from tape_tracking_test where media_id like 'TR44'; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec) I would like to display this message to the browser: Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec) Any help would be appreciated, Thanks, Mike