My guess is that you actually have 2 rows in the table for every forumID. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Ferrie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 8:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] simple query help
anyways i am tyring to delete the threadCount by -1 from the db. could below does dlete the count but in multipules of 2. Anyone cheers $query = "UPDATE forumForums SET threadCount = threadCount -1 WHERE forumID = $forumID"; if(!mysql_query($query)) { fail("Error deleting thread Count"); } $result = @mysql_query($query); -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php