BaSk

That wasn't it but I finally got it to work. $sword = explode(" ",$search); $sql='SELECT q.id, q.username, q.quote, q.by, q.voteup, q.votedown, q.servtime, c.quote_id, c.label FROM quotes q LEFT OUTER JOIN categories c ON q.id = c.quote_id WHERE'; foreach($sword as $sterm){ $srch='%'.mysql_real_escape_string($sterm).'%'; echo"$srch<br />"; $sql.=" (q.username LIKE '$srch' OR q.quote LIKE '$srch' OR q.`by` LIKE '$srch' OR c.label LIKE '$srch') OR"; /*echo"<pre>"; print_r($quote); echo"</pre>";*/ } $sql=substr($sql,0,-3); $result=mysql_query($sql) or die($sql.'<hr>'.mysql_error()); while($row=mysql_fetch_object($result)){ $quote[$row->id]['id'] = $row->id; $quote[$row->id]['username'] = $row->username; $quote[$row->id]['quote'] = $row->quote; $quote[$row->id]['by'] = $row->by; $quote[$row->id]['voteup'] = $row->voteup; $quote[$row->id]['votedown'] = $row->votedown; $quote[$row->id]['servtime'] = $row->servtime; $quote[$row->id]['label'][] = $row->label; } echo"<pre>"; print_r($quote); echo"</pre>"; Thanks for your time and support guys. -BaSk

So what your say if i get ride of the multidimensional array, and not output the labels, that it should get ride of the duplicate posts?

I have a search where I want to be able to search a string of words. The search is going to be looking in 2 different table joined by a left outer join. The tables are "quotes" and "categories". $sql="SELECT q.id, q.username, q.quote, q.by, q.voteup, q.votedown, q.servtime, c.quote_id, c.label FROM quotes q LEFT OUTER JOIN categories c ON q.id = c.quote_id WHERE ( q.username LIKE '$srch' OR q.quote LIKE '$srch' OR q.`by` LIKE '$srch' OR c.label LIKE '$srch')"; The above mysql statement works and returns values..BUT if say, I search "john" and "funny", and a quote is posted by the user "john", but has a category of "funny" it will output the same quote twice. I was wondering if there was a way to see if a quote has either 1 term or both terms, if so display that quote but only display it once. Below is what the query is outputting. [100] => Array ( [id] => 100 [username] => John [quote] => new test quote blah blah [by] => John [voteup] => 0 [votedown] => 0 [servtime] => 2010-12-02 @ 16:27:03 [label] => Array ( [0] => Historic [1] => Serious [2] => Funny ) ) Here is the code in full. //// $sword = explode(" ",$search); foreach($sword as $sterm){ $srch="%".$sterm."%"; echo"$srch<br />"; $sql="SELECT q.id, q.username, q.quote, q.by, q.voteup, q.votedown, q.servtime, c.quote_id, c.label FROM quotes q LEFT OUTER JOIN categories c ON q.id = c.quote_id WHERE ( q.username LIKE '$srch' OR q.quote LIKE '$srch' OR q.`by` LIKE '$srch' OR c.label LIKE '$srch')"; $result=mysql_query($sql); while($row=mysql_fetch_object($result)){ $quote[$row->id]['id'] = $row->id; $quote[$row->id]['username'] = $row->username; $quote[$row->id]['quote'] = $row->quote; $quote[$row->id]['by'] = $row->by; $quote[$row->id]['voteup'] = $row->voteup; $quote[$row->id]['votedown'] = $row->votedown; $quote[$row->id]['servtime'] = $row->servtime; $quote[$row->id]['label'][] = $row->label; } echo"<pre>"; print_r($quote); echo"</pre>"; I don't think this is the fastest way of doing this, as it loops for each item in the db, per each keyword that is search. Any help would be great!! -BaSk