Morning, Since updating yesterday, all my php scripts that connect to a mysql database (whether local or over the network) stopped being able to connect. I had to append the port number to the host definition in the mysql connect function call to get them to work again. I have been unable to find what has changed. Any ideas where the change may have happened. thanks Chris Allison -- Calling the unnamed register the unnamed register really does nothing but negate the name the unnamed register and render the unnamed register useless as a name, thus the unnamed register is named the unnamed register and is no longer the unnamed register as it is named the unnamed register, so where is the unnamed register to be found and what do we call it! Steve Oualline, The book of vim.