they are doing exactly what i thought on monster.com here is an example url to save an agent http://my.monster.com/modifyagents.asp?<b>q=programming+PHP+MySQL</b>&cn=&lid=&fn=554&sort=rv&vw=b&cy=US&brd=1%2C1862%2C1863&from=js&savesearch=on the bold part above are the keywords searched for.... it will basically save these into a database record and use a cron job to pull the latest matches and send the emails. also it just uses those keywords when you use that agent on thier site. -- Joseph Crawford Jr. Codebowl Solutions codebowl@xxxxxxxxx 802-558-5247 For a GMail account contact me OFF-LIST -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php