Another theoretical approach, given the grey areas, would be to add a field to your table to indicate these "special" users. I would call the field "is_awesome" and have it default to zero, because that's just the way it is. Then you can make your query "SELECT * FROM users WHERE is_awesome=1". This method might make the code a bit more manageable as you could modify the users through a CMS rather than updating a hardcoded array. Marc -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php