Thank you everybody that responded so quickly - I used the suggestion of Franciccio - and the data is now gow into the db Thank you very much - I really appreciate the help. Another question - with this fix in place - do I still need the register_globals = On ? Or can I now turn it off? Thank you all again Andrew -----Original Message----- From: franciccio [mailto:frankrude@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 12:26 PM To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Mysql not receiving the data I agree, the slashes are killing the query. I would suggets doing this: $add = "INSERT INTO movies SET > movie_name=\"$movie_name\", > genre=\"$genre\", > director=\"$director\", > star1=\"$star1\", > star2=\"$star2\", > star3=\"$star3\", > brief_synopsis=\"$brief_synopsis\", > imdb_link=\"$imdb_link\""; -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php