This may be a rather noob question, but: I make several requests against a mysql db roughly of the form: mysql_connect mysql_select_db mysql_query mysql_close This will work for several connections (and sometimes all connections over the course of the script) On occassion, the script will be unable to connect at all, and sometimes it is not able to connect randomly within the script: Thanks, Noah -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php