Default.php sets a session variable named thisSelectedFile before putting the page designated by the ID (in this case PictureProperties.php) up. PictureProperties.php is . <?PHP session_start(); if (isset($_SESSION["Stan-and-Jeanne"])) { $thisPageHandle = $_SESSION['thisPageHandle']; $navigation_table = $_SESSION['navigation_table']; echo "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN\" "; echo "\"http://www.w3.org/TR/HTML4.01/frameset.dtd\"\n"; echo "<html>\n"; echo " <head>\n"; echo " <link rel=\"stylesheet\" "; echo "href=\"frames_style/Default.css\" "; echo "type=\"text/css\">\n"; echo " <title>" . $navigation_table[$thisPageHandle]["navigateTitle"] . "</title>\n"; echo " </head>\n"; echo " <body>\n"; echo "picture file = '" . $_SESSION['thisSelectedFile'] . "'<br>\n"; $picture = str_replace("\\\\", "/", $_SESSION['thisSelectedFile']); echo "picture file = '" . $picture . "'<br>\n"; $picture = str_replace("//Nasserver/PicturesMaster", "../pictures", $picture); echo "picture file = '" . $picture . "'<br>\n"; $im = new imagick($picture); $exifArray = $im->getImageProperties("exif:*"); foreach ($exifArray as $name => $property) { echo "{$name} => {$property}<br />\n"; } echo " </body>\n"; echo "</html>"; } ?> . and results in . picture file = '\\\\Nasserver\\PicturesMaster\\2004-07-31_Guadalupe_River_rafting_roll-1\\0 033126-R1-042-19A_20.jpg' picture file = '//Nasserver/PicturesMaster/2004-07-31_Guadalupe_River_rafting_roll-1/003312 6-R1-042-19A_20.jpg' picture file = '../pictures/2004-07-31_Guadalupe_River_rafting_roll-1/0033126-R1-042-19A_20 .jpg' exif:ColorSpace => 1 exif:ComponentsConfiguration => ... exif:Compression => 6 exif:DateTime => 2002:09:30 11:11:11 . . . . with IE6 SP1 and . picture file = '0033126-R1-042-19A_20.jpg' picture file = '0033126-R1-042-19A_20.jpg' picture file = '0033126-R1-042-19A_20.jpg' Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'ImagickException' with message 'unable to open image `/Stan-and-Jeanne.com/frames/0033126-R1-042-19A_20.jpg': No such file or directory' in /Stan-and-Jeanne.com/frames/PictureProperties.php:24 Stack trace: #0 /Stan-and-Jeanne.com/frames/PictureProperties.php(24): Imagick->__construct('0033126-R1-042-...') #1 {main} thrown in /Stan-and-Jeanne.com/frames/PictureProperties.php on line 24 . with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php