I understand what you're saying... he only creates the variables in the list he defines for the foreach loop. I guess what I was trying to imply was that whomever edits the form and adds a field is going to have to come into the CGI script and modify that too, creating the situation I described. =) You would hope the programmer in question would realize their folly and change the formfield name so that it wouldn't break the script, but never forget O'Toole's postulate: Murphy was an optimist.