<snip> Actually whether the script runs through to completion depends on the 'ignore_user_abort' setting. </snip> wow, guess you learn something everyday. wish I would have known about that when I wrote a php script with some terrible (lots of joins, just poorly designed) queries that took down my webserver :( -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php