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Hello, I'm wonding if someone can please assist me with the following addition I would like to make to a music artists site using PHP. The site has a mailing list, guestbook, & videos - when the user goes to access the guestbook and videos, I want to be able to check if they're signed-up to the mailing list.. and if not, then they need to join to view the content. I don't want a login area. When a user goes to sign the guestbook, they enter their name, email address & post code, along with their guestbook message. When the message is processed it also checks the mailing list to see if they're registed (& adds them if they're not). Also, it would be neat to have a cookie stored on the users computer that once they have verified themselves, if they access another feature that wants their details first - the form is "austomatically" filled. Can someone please point me in the right direction with this - or if you have done this before I would greatly appreciate you stepping me through the process. This would be a great learning experience for - thank you for your interest in helping me out. Thanks Tim Burgan -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .