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This is line 40 $row83 = mysql_fetch_assoc($important);
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//Check to see if the warlist message exists
$important = ("SELECT * FROM invites WHERE user_id='".$id."' AND
sent_id='".$userp['id']."'");
$row83 = mysql_fetch_assoc($important);
$result = mysql_query($important);