Angelo Zanetti wrote: > Why does the < > cause that not to be displayed? or is it retrieving it > correctly but not showing it because of the < > (which might be > conflicting with HTML tags? Whenever you have something between < > for example <this will not show> The browser will interpret it as an HTML tag and not display it. Have a look at htmlentities() or replace the < and > with < and > HTH Albert -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.22/238 - Release Date: 2006/01/23 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php