[AndreT]

I think he wants the Faction as an integer (or ID for his system). I doubt mysql_fetch_field_row works with variables as the first parameter.

And I'm sorry, I thought I was looking at strval() the whole time, but it appears to be strlen() instead. That would explain it.

// edit no idea why I thought he wants it as an integer value. I assumed it from what I thought was strval I think!