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I am writing a php script the stores contact info in a database and then ranks the by the rank that i give them. I am having a problem when it comes to changing their ranks. Let me give you an example: Joe Smith has a rank of 1 John Doing has a rank of 2 Beth Franks has a Rank of 3 Jim Johnson has a Rank of 4 Now what should happen is that if i want Jim to have a rank of 2 it should bump down everyone elses score. Instead when i run it, it gives Jim a score of 2 and everyone else a score of 4. For the life of me i can't figure out why. [code] <? $ud_id=$_POST['ud_id']; $ud_name=$_POST['ud_name']; $ud_address=$_POST['ud_address']; $ud_city=$_POST['ud_city']; $ud_state=$_POST['ud_state']; $ud_phone=$_POST['ud_phone']; $ud_rank=$_POST['ud_rank']; $rank=$ud_rank; // copies the ud_rank to rank, rank  is used in the while loop $username="********";      $password="*********";      $database="*********";      mysql_connect(localhost,$username,$password);     @mysql_select_db($database) or die("Unable to Connect to database");     $query="SELECT * FROM spots ORDER BY rank";     $result=mysql_query($query);     $num=mysql_numrows($result); //gets the number of rows in the table          $newrank=$rank; //copies the current records rank to newrank     $runs= ($num - $rank); //tells how many times the while loop needs to run          while ($runs > 0){      echo "Rank = $rank <br>";          $newrank=($newrank + 1); //adds one to the new rank     echo "New Rank =$newrank <br><br>";          $query="UPDATE spots SET rank='$newrank' WHERE rank='$rank'"; //stores the new values     @mysql_select_db($database) or die ("Unable to connect to Database");     mysql_query($query);     $rank=($rank + 1); //addes 1 to the newrank          $runs=($runs -1); //subtracts one to limit the rumbers of runs...          } // tell mysql to update the changes $query="UPDATE spots SET name='$ud_name', address='$ud_address', city='$ud_city', state='$ud_state', phone='$ud_phone', rank='$ud_rank' WHERE id='$ud_id'"; //do not forget this it is needed to connect to the data base @mysql_select_db($database) or die ("Unable to conect to Database"); mysql_query($query); echo "Record Updated"; mysql_close(); ?> [/code] Any thoughts? For life of me i can't figure it out... if i need to i can post the previous page where the updated information is given....