Hi Brian,
So could I put an record update within the conditional PHP code as you suggested to insert a value of "1" into the database column alertShown (which will be null the first time it is queried)?
<?php
if ($row_tasks['alertshow'] < 1) { ?>
code to UPDATE column "tasks.alertShown" to "1" for every record retrieved by the recordset
<?php } ?>
Do I need to use Data Assist to achive this? or is their some custom code that needs to be written to do this? and if so could you point me in the right direction?
Thanks again for all your help.
Lee