Hello All, I am running into a problem after I moved a site from a server with PHP4 to PHP5. As an example I have a variable defined at the top of my code lets say: $test_mode = "no"; Then within the code I check if we are in test mode to bypass certain functionality like so: function runTransaction() { global $test_mode; do some things; do some more things; if ($test_mode == "yes") { don't do anything; } else { Do something; } My problem is that $test_mode NEVER contains the value "no". Any ideas appreciated. Joey