On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:31:57 +0100, Geoff Sheridan <web2k2 at premonition.co.uk> wrote: > Impossible to do a search on this, but probably very simple: > > What does the = @ mean in the following snippet? > > while ($row = @ mysql_fetch_row($result)){ > > ...do something with row > } > > How is it different from just = ? I believe that it means to suppress error messages that may occur when trying to connect to the mysql DB. TjL -- 30 Days to Becoming an Opera7 Lover: http://www.tntluoma.com/switch Day 1 - Why Opera? http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/7/01/ Day 2 - Configuration http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/7/02/ Hate the ads in Opera? http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/7/ads/