That didn't work but I left out a part... here is the original
Code:
function getfamilynames($familymember, $generation){
$familyname = array(array());
for($i=0; $i<=$generation; $i++){
for($j=0; $j<count($familymember[$i]); $j++){
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM {$GLOBALS['prefix']}owned_adoptables WHERE aid = '{$familymember[$i][$j]}'");
$thisadopt = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$adoptexist = mysql_num_rows($result);
if($adoptexist == 0) $familyname[$i][$j] = "<br>";
else $familyname[$i][$j] = $thisadopt['name'];
}
}
return $familyname;
}