OK - this had no chance of success since publish_date_desc is processed using the _desc ( or _asc ) and any invalid data stripped &sort_mode=publish_date_desc%20or%20(1,2)=(select*from(select%20name_const(CHAR(111,108,111,108,111,115,104,101,114),1),name_const(CHAR(111,108,111,108,111,115,104,101,114),1))a)%20--%20and%201%3D1 The question is more of interest in just what it was trying to achieve? I presume hack MySQL? So Firebird would barf anyway, but just trying to something that has generated some several hundred error log entries in the last two days ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php