This is a VERY much under-documented syntax. I am a newbie but had the same question. I believe it means "ignore error messages from this function" Larry Helms wrote: >I've been programming in PHP now for a little over a year... and loving it. I didn't really >understand OO programming that well (and it's still a little mystifying to me) until I got a >hold of some PHP OO code. > >That aside... I've recently run into some code with LOTS of '@' in it. >e.g. > >@somefunction(); >OR >@require_once (INCLUDE_PATH."config.php"); > >My question is... WHAT does the '@' mean and what affect does it have on processing? > >Thanks in Advance, >Larr. > > > >PHP Data object relational mapping generator >http://www.metastorage.net/ >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > >