Man, I don't know why I do this, but this week I've been learning php, sql, the new MU and 3d stuff...so I spread myself thin....or I 'chunk learn'. Anyway, with php there's a way to post a file (user chosen) to a page, and have the php page that's posted either store the file on the server or use SQL's BLOB feature to actually add it to a db if needed... Now it seems built to take a jpg and send it upstream -- but of course any image get/send is just transferring to binary data ie Star Trek transporter - but could one just take a castmember.picture and post that as an image? Or would you have to create a file first in order to send it upstream? Just seems like you wouldn't have to.... Unless you needed to create the necessary header info for the jpg/pct/bmp, whatever.... But how does director/shockwave define a cast member picture? Is there a default internal storage mechanism based on some image filetype? I'm guessing it's jpg, yes? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]