hhhmmm... ok, i added the sleep() function in my page. what i'm basically doing is :- i have a .php page where people log-in from. from there i send the form to another .php page that actually checks the login and registers a session with the username and password as session variables. then on the page that actually does the validation, i have something that says : validating login... sleep 1 funtion. then, i have another line that says validation successfull... sleep 1 function and then i have another line that says redirecting... with sleep 1 function and then header redirects to the actual logged-in.php file. the redirect and validation works perfectly as well as the sleep functions, but it now doesn't display the validating login... blah blah blah stuff which is done in normal html code... any idea ? -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php