I'm a newbie on these things so I might be asking for something that can't be done. I have a navigation bar (#navbar) with links that when each of the links is clicked, the click will update the content in the (#maincontent) div. This is done with PHP includes and works well. The include page has the content in the file. What I would like to do is make the content on the include page dynamic, so that the user could update the mySQL database and in turn update the content for that page. I'm using Dreamweaver and I can add dynamic content to the include page via PHP but the dynamic content does not display once the include is called for. The include page does show the dynamic content when viewed by itself. The Recordset is in the include page. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Joe

Hi, I'm not sure if it's what you're after or how close it is to what you already have, but you *might* try something similar to <?php unset($page); $link = mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "passw"); if(!$link) { die(mysql_error()); } if(!mysql_select_db("dbname", $link)) { die(mysql_error()); } mysql_query("create table if not exists tbl_test( id int(6) auto_increment, content text(8192), primary key(id) )type=myisam;") or die(mysql_error()); if(mysql_num_rows(mysql_query("select content from tbl_test where id=1 limit 1;")) == 0) { mysql_query("insert into tbl_test values('null', 'some initial content');") or die(mysql_error()); } if(isset($_POST["cmd"]) && $_POST["cmd"] === "Update") { $res = mysql_query("update tbl_test set content='" . $_POST["content"] . "' where id=" . $_POST["sel_id"] . " limit 1;") or die(mysql_error()); header("location: " . $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] . "?p=1"); } else if(isset($_GET["p"]) && $_GET["p"] === "1") { $res = mysql_query("select * from tbl_test where id=1 limit 1;") or die(mysql_error()); if(is_resource($res)) { $data = mysql_fetch_row($res); $page = "<strong>current data</strong>: " . $data[1] . "<form action='" . $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] . "' method='post'>\n" . "<input name='sel_id' type='hidden' value='" . $data[0] . "'>\n" . "<textarea name='content' rows='10' cols='60'></textarea>\n" . "<input name='cmd' value='Update' type='submit'>\n" . "</form>"; } else { $page = "resource failed"; } } mysql_close($link); ?> <table cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td width="20%" valign="top"> <a href="<?php echo $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];?>?p=1">navbar 1</a> </td> <td width="80% valign="top"> <?php echo $page; ?> </td> </tr> </table> There is NO error checking of any kind. You likely wouldn't need most of the code to create and insert data either... I did that to crudely test it. Hope that helps or at least gives you an idea to try.