Tapio Markula wrote: > what Typo3 call I could use? > I mean something like > $GLOBALS['TYPO3_DB']->exec_SELECTquery('COUNT(*)',$table,'pid='.$id.' > AND deleted=0','', '', ''); what about $GLOBALS['TYPO3_DB']->exec_SELECTquery('*',$table,''); if $row['hidden'] georg