Re: using a for loop but it is not working how come

> I am having a problem with this script It pulls a list of numbers from > one field in the database (the numbers are in this format > (275,277,278,276) It needs to pull each number and run it through the > function dofunction and then move on to the next one in tell there are > no more to process. What am I doing wrong or is there a better way to > do this. > > sql="Select Numbers from dom where name = '$name'"; > $results=safe_query($sql); > $DBRow = mysql_fetch_array($results); > $numbers = $DBRow["Numbers"]; > $numbers = array($numbers); > for($i = 0; $i < count($numbers); $i++) { > $number = $numbers[$i]; > dofunction($number); > } You have a few problems in your code. This hasn't been tested, but, is a start... sql="Select Numbers from dom where name = '$name'"; $results=safe_query($sql); $DBRow = mysql_fetch_array($results); $number_array = explode(",", $DBRow["Numbers"]); // above splits number list into array using comma as delimiter foreach($number_array as $digit) { dofunction($digit); } Above foreach() construct loops through the array and assigns the value of each element to $digit, and continues doing this until it reaches the end of the array. http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php Monty