Hi. I have tried to use the prepare and execute on a sample table of people. This should returm to people with first name Bruce. Not sure what this bindParam is all about. Picked it up on an IBM PDO web site. <? $pdo = connectDB(); $Name = "Bruce"; $sql= ("SELECT * FROM PDO WHERE Name_F = ?"); // $Name goes here $stmt = $pdo->prepare($sql); // $stmt->bindParam(1, $Name); $stmt->execute($Name); while ($row = $stmt->fetch()) { echo $row['Name_F'] . " - " . $row['Name_S'] . " -