Yes they gave me phpMyAdmin to use, and no, I have no access to the user/privilege table. So the only way to output database entries is to connect with the single super account they gave me. I have a question about what you said Doug: >Use INCLUDEs for the login portions of the script(s) and place them in a >protected directory. If >you are unable to protect directories (.htaccess) >with this host, they are begging for trouble and >victimizing their >subscribers. In other words, call on an external function to connect to the database, and place the file with this function in a directory that is .htaccess protected. Is this correct? I do have a separate file with a database connect function that all the pages on my site use, I just don't have it in a .htaccess protected directory. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php