Hey just so you know I have the perfect solution to what your trying to do. From the lesson I just took at http://www.gotoandlearn.com/ there is a little movie to the left that says PHP FLASH and Sql. I just followed and did everything he did on the movie and I got it up and going. A flash file thats reading a php file that requesting from the db and then printing the info into an xml file. its pretty sweet and def worth checking out i just to see the .php file when the src is viewed is actually a xml file. very sweet. Hope this helps dude. PHP on!!! Justin Often Lost