Hi Stutt Thanks. I hadn't included much of the code for easy reading. I just had to use the $_POST[$val] to get the actual values. Thanks for your help. Ron for ($num = 1; $num <= 3; $num++) { $varname = 'suggested_category_'.$num; $val = $$varname; // Stick your code here replacing references to the $suggested_category_1 var with $val } Incidentally, I do hope that code was simplified for brevity. There should be extensive use of mysql_real_escape_string in there. -Stut -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php