how do I make a script wait ?

I am writing a script that searches through a database table, and then there is an array function below the searching, but the array function gets executed before the database table searching finishes and I want it to wait until the database has been searched before executing the array code Thanks in Advance -- www.phpexpert.org/truefaith.htm "True Faith is not just when you believe in God and yourself, it is when others begin to believe in you as well" - Damian John Paul Brown 2004