How can I check MULTIPLE mysql records in a table (using PHP) to see if a row has the value I want it to have (row is 'status' and value is 'up' or 'down')? Any help would be much appreciated.

Can anyone help me here? I wouldnt think its that hard of a thing to do... Please help if you can. Thanks.

the basic query is: "select * from yourtable where `status` = 'up' or `status`='down'";

for other parts, please read some tutorials ...
http://www.tizag.com/mysqlTutorial/mysqlfetcharray.php