> what i want to do is, search for "93 accord", for example and get the > relevent matches from the database. > so far, i have been able to only get results by a particular category, > ie. part name, make, model, etc, but no combination of at least two. > your help is very much appreciated. I'd suggest you look into using full-text searching with MySQL: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Fulltext_Search.html -- Sarah Sweeney Web Developer & Programmer Portfolio :: http://sarah.designshift.com Blog, etc :: http://hardedge.ca