Thanks.I had initialized $t_mssg as an empty string further up the chain out of old habit.. removed that, and now it works... just built my first
basic cookie-based PHP/MySQL log-in script from scratch! ;-) Fun stuff, Donovan -- D Brooke -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php