mysql/php how to retrieve the right column with 2 columns of the same name

Hi all, I have to tables A and B. They boyh have a column with the same name. Now, I wrote this MySQL statement performing a left join. This results in a data set with rows consisting of 2 columns of the same name, in which the date is stored when the record was last altered. This column is called "last_altered". Later on in my script I'm calling the value of this column with php. $query="select * from tblA LEFT JOIN ...."; $resultID=mysql_query($query); while ($result_row=mysql_fetch_array($resultID)) { echo "$result_row[column with the same name]"; } Well, this works without any php or mysql errors, but it is giving me the data back of that column wich I don't wanna have...It returns the "last_altered" date of tblB in stead of tblA. A solution might be te exclude the second column (the wrong one) from the select statement in the query. This is a MySQL adjustement. Anybody knows how this can be done?? Maybe there are also PHP solutions which I don't know of...? thx Wilbert Enserink ------------------------- Pas de Deux Van Mierisstraat 25 2526 NM Den Haag tel 070 4450855 fax 070 4450852 http://www.pdd.nl info@pdd.nl -------------------------