$query="SELECT id,name,permission_array FROM forums WHERE parent_id != '-1'"; $result=mysql_query($query); $num = mysql_numrows($result); $i=0; while($i<$num) { $rows = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); $permissions = str_replace( ",", " OR g_perm_id=", unserialize(stripslashes($rows[permission_array]))); print_r($permissions); $query2="SELECT g_id FROM groups WHERE g_perm_id = ".$permissions['show_perms'].""; print_r($query2); $result2=mysql_query($query2); $perms = mysql_fetch_array($result2); print_r($perms); echo "FORUM ".$rows['id']." ".$perms[g_id]." :".$rows['name']."\r"; $i++; }