John hit the nail right on the head, i was editing the windows\php.ini, after all thats what the manual said PHP uses. When in actual fact it was the copy of php.ini I had in my PHP root directory. Anyways, cheers for the help :) Hartleigh Burton www.channel-x.org -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php