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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

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

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.

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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.