Hello William, Thursday, April 21, 2005, 2:28:01 PM, you wrote: WS> $team_id is the MD5 formatted cookie value and I need to put it to the WS> x_table column team_id in cleartext. You need to re-think how those cookie values are stored then. You cannot un-MD5 something at all, it's a one-way hashing algorithm. Best regards, Richard Davey -- http://www.launchcode.co.uk - PHP Development Services "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." - Isaac Asimov -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php