[snip] I have a question about sessions, I am attempting to store a search term in a session variable to that when it finds the set of records from the database it can export it to excel. The problem I have is that the session variable is 1 search behind... [/snip] When you do the search store the search term immediately to the session variable; <?php //pseudo-code start_session(); $_SESSION['searchTerm'] = $_GET['searchTerm']; ?> <html> <a href="link to excel sheet"> </html> Now in the code that generates the excel; <?php session_start(); $getStuffForExcel = "SELECT foo, bar FROM data where foo = '".$_SESSION['searchTerm']."' "; ?> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php