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Excellent. It worked great Barand. Thank you

understood. Thank you.

Thanks for that. I'll give it a go this evening. What did you mean by "I would also recommend using using valid column names"? I was trying to keep everything descriptive so I have a better understanding of what I am learning. Thanks

I have two table - categories - cat-id, cat-title posts - post-id, post-cat-id, post-title I want to search through all rows in 'posts' and get the number of posts based on each category in 'categories', echo 'cat-title' - number of posts if no posts then echo 'cat-title' - "no posts". posts are assigned a post-cat-id relative to cat-id. I tried using joins WHERE cat-id = post-cat-id AND cat-title = 'a-category' but that only shows results when posts are assigned 'a-category'. If that category does not exist in 'posts' then nothing shows How, in your opinion, should I approach this? Thanks