I'm wanting to overwrite the variables contained in a session, I read on the net somewhere that I could do this by explicitely making variables global, the code I looked at contained this: extract( $HTTP_POST_VARS ); What exactly does this do? Cheers, Graeme :) -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php