And here's a follow up question... After looking at my database from a fresh perspective, I'm now thinking of combining tables "area" and "family" into a single table.
If I do that, it would make life so much simpler if I had TWO name fields, like this: ID | Name | ParentID | Parent Name -------------------------------------------- az | Arizona | us | United States us | United States | kna | North America jpn | Japan | keu | Eurasia I could then slap a $mycode = 'az" on a page and easily fill in its name and the name of its parent without fiddling with queries, joins, unions, etc. I know that duplicating names in two fields isn't the most elegant solution, but would create any major problems? Thanks. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]