Chip Rose said: > Does anyone have a clue about what I'm *TRYING* to convey?? > Thanks/Chip Rose no <G> but I think i can help did you install php3-mysql? check the php config file to be sure the module is loading(I haven't used php3 in a long time, but for php4 this is in /etc/php/*/php.ini) usually the package will prompt to automatically load this for you. nate