Hey This is what i'm trying to do : I have a table "yacht_basket", that contains a parent field and every product bought will get the parent value of "1" in the table. I want to SUM the parent field for the last session_id, and then : if parent = 3 then take 1% off the total price. ( i have a price variable already called total, stored in the session ) $_SESSION['total'] = $total;} so i want to take this total and do take 1% off the value, obviously if parent doesnt = 3 then just use the original value. I am very new to php, but this is what i have so far, i dont know if i'm on the right lines though. any advice would be greats, thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [code] <?php $last_id = mysql_insert_id(); $result=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM yacht_basket where session_id = $session_id"); if (mysql_errno()!=0) { echo mysql_error(); [b]This will select the last session id[/b] exit; } ?> <?php $res3 = mysql_query("SELECT SUM(parent) from `yacht_basket` WHERE`yacht_basket`.`session_id` = '$session_id'"); echo mysql_error(); [b]SUMS the parent column for products of the session_id[/b] while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res3)) { if(parent=='3') $total=(($total/100)*99);} [b] Calculation[/b] ?>[/code]