Thansk for ur reply. but i want to mak my question clear. Whether can i avoid database retrieval each time for each question for each user , wich wud mak the appln more loaded one & slow . ( for ref- in ASP.net, VB.net, as they are appln oriented, its enuf if DB Query fetch is made only once & can be displayed one at a time by moving the ADO like recordset pointer) So , is it possible to do something lik tht in php..? I wanted to reduce laod on DB engine(MySql).