php4.0.5 win32 I have a page called results.php. Short but with any number of 12 include files depending on the logic flow. The first include file is a config file include("config.fil"); that contains all the variables to run the app., included is : $MYSQL_LINK=mysql_connect($host,$uName,$pWord); (All the necessary variables are declared before $MYSQL_LINK) Four different includes use this variable to get info from the same table and db no problem. When I get down to one of the last includes, I get the following error message "1 is not a valid MySQL-Link resource"....etc in fulldisplay.php so I added the following to fulldisplay.php before the call to the db print $MYSQL_LINK; mysql_select_db($dbName,$MYSQL_LINK); It returned: Resource id #1 Warning: 1 is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in...etc the script completes but with the warning message Now if I take this include and insert include("config.fil"); at the top of this include file. I get...Resource id #9 and the script runs correctly to completion, no warnings no problems. I can't even begin to understand why the variable $MYSQL_LINK runs correctly in all the includes except fulldisplay.php unless I include the config file for the second time. By way of note, all the other varaibles defined in the config file are available in fulldisplay.php without including the config fle for a 2nd time. rm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]