Nice way to dump out the names and values of the variables coming from a posted form:

foreach ( $_POST as $key => $value ) {
 echo $key . ” ” . “=” . ” ” . $value;
 echo  ”<BR>”;
}

Get the parts of the current date into workable variables….

        $cday = date(‘d’,time());
        $cmonth = date(‘m’,time());
        $cyear = date(‘Y’,time());

One way of detecting of a select statement returned any results.  Using this currently…

  $result = mysql_query(“SELECT * FROM some_table where some_field = ’some_value’ “, $connection);

  if (!$result) 
    $count=0;
  else
    $count =mysql_num_rows($result);

  if ($count == 0) {
   die(“Database query failed: ” . mysql_error());