THE SOLUTION

First, thanks to everyone who chimed in with great suggestions on why my app was moving so slowly... In case you missed it, I was having problems with page return time while connecting to Oracle. Here's the solution. Every bit of code was just fine (well, fine ENOUGH I guess :) ). What I didn't know, and am about to put into the annotated manual as soon as this thank you is written, is that OCIPLogon only 'really' works when PHP is being hit as a module. What is deceptive is that you can use OCIPLogon in CGI mode, but it is unable to stay persistent (something that a little deductive reasoning should have exposed to me, but I'm not as smart as I'd like to think I am sometimes) if you run PHP as a module.... So, thanks for all the help. --------------------- John Asendorf - jasendorf@lcounty.com Web Applications Developer http://www.lcounty.com - NEW FEATURES ADDED DAILY! Licking County, Ohio, USA 740-349-3631 Aliquando et insanire iucundum est