Edit: I've added usage example and a clearer explanation of the code snippet. Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in <filename> on line <line> ************************************************************ ***** I can only find the change log for PHP 5.2 identifying this type of error, nothing on how to fix it. I have updated PHP to 5.2.3 on Apache 2.2.x on a BSD Box 6.x If some one could explain to me what I am doing wrong, and what I need to do to fix it that would be swell. A point of note is that my $dbh is being created in my class constructor as a private. The method that is calling the prepare and execute statements is a public. I don't thing I'm trying to do anything new or exotic, I don't think I'm trying to convert the object to a string, just execute the query statement.... //code snip of public function insertUser() $begin = $this->dbh->beginTransaction(); if (!$begin) throw new HWIException(ERR0023,23); $outdc = ""; $outliid = ""; $prep_users = $this->dbh->prepare($sql_users); if (!$prep_users) { $msg = $this->dbh->errorInfo(); throw new HWIException(ERR0021 . " " . $msg[2], 21); } $prep_users->bindParam(':username', $this->userObj->hwi_username, PDO::PARAM_STR, 16); $prep_users->bindParam(':title', $this->userObj->hwi_title, PDO::PARAM_STR, 4); $prep_users->bindParam(':firstname', $this->userObj->hwi_firstname, PDO::PARAM_STR, 30); $prep_users->bindParam(':midinit', $this->userObj->hwi_midinit, PDO::PARAM_STR, 1); $prep_users->bindParam(':lastname', $this->userObj->hwi_lastname, PDO::PARAM_STR, 45); $prep_users->bindParam(':priphone', $this->userObj->hwi_priphone, PDO::PARAM_STR, 30); $prep_users->bindParam(':priext', $this->userObj->hwi_priext, PDO::PARAM_STR, 10); $prep_users->bindParam(':secphone', $this->userObj->hwi_secphone, PDO::PARAM_STR, 30); $prep_users->bindParam(':secext', $this->userObj->hwi_secext, PDO::PARAM_STR, 10); $prep_users->bindParam(':fax', $this->userObj->hwi_fax, PDO::PARAM_STR, 30); $prep_users->bindParam(':isPI', $this->userObj->hwi_ispi, PDO::PARAM_INT); $prep_users->bindParam(':date_returned', $outdc, PDO::PARAM_STR); $prep_users->bindParam(':liid', $outliid, PDO::PARAM_STR); ##################### PROBLEM LINE OF CODE ################### $exec = $prep_users->execute(); ############################################################ ##### if(!$exec) { $msg = $prep_users->errorInfo(); throw new HWIException(ERR0022 . " " . $msg[2], 22); } ************************************************************ **** USAGE test.php ************************************************************ **** $userobject->username = 'mysuername'; $userobject->lastname = 'mylastname'; // continue on w/ each property as described in the bindParam statements in the insertUser() method. //class MyUser extends PDO (I started out extending PDO, changed to code to debug it by creating a $dbh object in the constructor, and switched back to extending PDO. Nothing works. $userObj = new MyUser($userObject); $userObj->insertUser(); -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php