nested if in a for statement

I am checking the values of a submited forms for empty fields with the code below. My problem is that the echo statement is being executed once regardless of whether or not the if statement is true. What am I missing? thanks, loopjunkie ---- snip ---- /* variables in array set earlier in script */ $userVars = array($nameFirst, $nameLast, $pass, $pass2, $auth, $dob_year, $dob_month, $dob_day); for ($i=0; $i <= count($userVars); $i++) { if (empty($userVars[$i])) { echo "please enter all required info"; break; } } --- snip ---- _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail