Micah Gersten wrote: >You're referencing the 5.1 manual. In the 5.0 manual it says that >VARCHAR was extended to 65535 in 5.0.3, so you're statement is not >entirely correct, nor was Stuart's. That's why I linked him to the 5.0 >manual page on data types. Good point, thanks! I usually read from the .chm manual but just jumped to the website to grab a link. Should have been: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-types.html I note that Stuart was most likely talking about MySQL <= 4 which had a limit of 255 characters for varchar. -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia "My old man told me one time, you never get wise, you only get older" - Dandy Warhols -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php