Tuesday, June 21, 2005, 8:22:02 PM, Hans wrote: > Re: setting $Author when using authentication prompt: no need for the first global= $Author; hack should be: function AuthenticateUser($authid) { $GLOBALS['AuthId'] = $authid; @session_start(); $_SESSION['authid'] = $authid; $GLOBALS['Author'] = $authid; setcookie('author',$Author,0,'/'); } Best, ~Hans