I figured out that the syntax below creates the date in the way it may be stored in a mySQL table: $todays_date=DATE('Y-m-d'); Is there any way to add 21 days to this as an expiry date? For example if the date was March 20th 2005 21 days would be in April --- is there any way of dealing with this? Ron -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php