ok cool thanks guys... laugh

but for some reason i'm stuck on the url part now... i cant seem to be able to capture it in the variable..

[ http://somesite.net/udetails.php?id=0000&hit=0 ]

i could try to piece it together using $gettok, but thats lame.... i know there's a better way. i havnt really dealt with urls and parsing them out.. so i more clueless than normal..

any thoughts?