Dan wrote: > After thinking about this a while I also thought of making my own > cache. The problem with that is would it be any faster or have any > less strain on the server than having multiple requests/connections to > the database? A lot depends on the amount of data and the overall load on the web-server. If you do the query once, then store the result in a file, and then keep reading that file for the next <cachetime> seconds, the file will most probably remain in memory, so accessing it will be fast and without IO. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php