Before someone advises me to 'google' my question. I have and can't find a PHP.net example either. I have turned off registered globals and am updating my scripts so they work but I keep getting an undefined index problem using $_POST I tried this to set the value... if (!isset($_POST['heading'])) { $_POST ['heading'] = ""; } because the following line give the notice 'undefined index' BEFORE the submit button has been pressed.. <? $heading_insert= stripslashes($_POST['heading']);?> R. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php