Thanks a bunch. That fixed me right up. Still learning a lot about PHP and MySQL. Hopefully I will be able to remember this as I am sure this issue will come up for me again in the future. -----Original Message----- From: 1LT John W. Holmes [mailto:holmes072000@charter.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 2:47 PM To: NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI); 'Aaron Wolski'; php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: INSERT question... > $query = "INSERT INTO accounts (`id-sys`, rtime) VALUES('".$accnts[0]."', > 'NOW()')"; Remove the quotes around NOW(). It's a function, not a string. ---John Holmes... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php