Hello, if you use the AJAX, your problem will be solved. :) -- Haydar TUNA Republic Of Turkey - Ministry of National Education Education Technology Department Ankara / TURKEY Web: http://www.haydartuna.net ""Matthew Ferry"" <mferry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:023301c751a5$ac1799b0$640fa8c0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi fellow php late night peoples.... Thanks for everyone's help the last couple of days... I have learned so much. The best way to learn this stuff...is simple trial and error... and thanks for good old Goooogle! My problem tonight is very simple. I just don't know what command I want to use. I want to echo text in a page then take a delay then echo more text/images to the same page. I tried the sleep command with the number of seconds, but it don't load the page to the sleep timer is done. any ideas of what php command I can use? Matt -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php