Re: echo only displays first character

please post more code, ie where $name is set. in the mean time try this, shouldnt help but might foreach($empid as $pos => $val) { echo "{$empid[$pos]} {$name[$pos]}<br>"; } -- Chris Lee lee@mediawaveonline.com ""Tom Harris"" <stry_cat@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:98tcfg$bn3$1@toye.p.sourceforge.net... Here's an interesting problem. The following only prints the first letter of the name for ($i=0; isset($empid[$i]); $i++) { echo "$empid[$i] $name[$i]<br>"; } But if I change the variable $name to $employeename throughout the script it displays fine. $empid[] and $name[] are both assigned earlier in the script by pulling data from a MySQL database. Is $name a reserved word or something? Anyone know why just changing the array's name fixes the problem? Thanks, -Tom -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net