Take for example: INSERT INTO table ( field ) VALUES ('{$variable}' ) Why the curly brackets? Where in the fine manual is this addressed? I started from [1] but did not find the relevant info. [1] http://il2.php.net/manual/en/book.mysql.php -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php