[Pause a script]

You can use sleep(); like this:

while (true) {
// Do something here
sleep(seconds);
}

and replace sleep(seconds); with how many seconds you would like to pause the script

[explode - implode - arrays.. help =)]

If you would make it an array again you just have to use explode(',',$comfy);
If $comfy is 1,2,3,4,5 the return of explode(',',$comfy); would be array(1,2,3,4,5);
I hope this helps

[Bad performance]

Okej, im sorry if i wasent so clear what i want. I want to make system that stores dynamic information in the database that isent table specific. So if i want to make lets say a guestbook with that system insted of creating a table i want to fetch the guestbook data from different tables. Like this:

function postReply($name, $msg, $date) {
$id = make some uniq id here...
mysql_query("INSET INTO textVars(id,fieldname,value) values('".$id."','gb_name','".$name."')");
mysql_query("INSET INTO textVars(id,fieldname,value) values('".$id."','gb_msg','".$msg."')");
mysql_query("INSET INTO dateVars(id,fieldname,value) values('".$id."',''gb_date'','".$date."')");
}

What im trying to say is that i dont want to store data thats table specific.
So if i want to fetch a gb reply ill use this function:

function fetchReply($id) {
$data = array();
$data['id'] = $id;
$data['name'] = fetch row from textVars WHERE id=$id AND fieldname='gb_name'
$data['msg'] = fetch row from textVars WHERE id=$id AND fieldname='gb_msg'
... and so on
return $data;
}

Im wondering if this would make a big performance hit or if it would not so big and im also wondering if ther any better way to fetch data from differnt tables. I hope you understand what im trying to ask.

[Bad performance]

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[Bad performance]

Lets say that i want to get a array of values from a database, like:
$sql = mysql_query(SELECT id, c1, c2, c3 FROM table WHERE id=1);
$result = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql);

But how much performance hit would it be to get the values from different tables like this:
$result['id'] = query and get ID
$result['c1'] = query and get c1
... and so on

Would that make a big performance hit, i know it would make a performance hit but would that a be a big performance hit? And also would it be faster to make sub querys in SQL rather than make a query for each value and is there any better way to acomplish this?

Sorry for my bad english.