Here is my situation , not sure how I should handle it. I have this multi page form, at the end I use mysql transaction to get the data into all the tables. All the tables are innodb with the exception of one. The last page has one field which takes a copy/paste of a document, so it's a text area. This is set up to go into a MyISAM table. MyISAM for the full text searching capabilities. So here are my thoughts: 1-I change the table to Innodb, and figure out how to make it effective for text searching. I figure there must be a work around. Maybe not. 2-I put the field into a temp Innodb table and then when the transaction completes, move it over to the permanent MyISAM 3-Somehow I trick the transaction (maybe trick is a bad word), to use and update for this last field into the MyISAM table ? Not sure if anyone has had this issue before but I'm looking and hoping for suggestions. Thank you Stuart --- John Holmes <holmes072000@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php