Stuck....

[Matt]

Just so you know what its for I am trying to do a fan fiction archive for my site and looked at someone elses code which was set out similar to this. Before that I had :

SELECT * FROM fanfic_contents ORDER BY..........

I just wanted somehow to make it a bit easier and to involve less queries. The problem being that the author info and the actual fan fiction are stored in different tables.

So I basically have this code and have a vague idea of what its doing but no real understanding of it :S