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I very, very much appreciate the reply, but it still doesn't work. I've checked, and the MySQL works fine. I think it's something I don't understand about the attempted redirection. In other words: $usersfound = 1 BUT in all instances, the redirection is to stopit.html Help, I've been trying to fix this for something like 3 hours, and I'm gonna bust!

The following PHP code used to work perfectly: /*verify registration*/ $sql_user_check = "select * from firstmysqltable where email='$email'"; $result_name_check = mysql_query($sql_user_check); $usersfound = mysql_num_rows($result_name_check); // if user not found, note that and end if ($usersfound < 1) header("Location: [a href=\"http://www.site.com/stopit.html");\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.site.com/stopit.html");[/a] // if user does exist, continue with processing else header("Location: [a href=\"http://www.site.com/goahead.html");\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.site.com/goahead.html");[/a] Then I attempted to “enhance” the process: /*verify registration*/ $sql_user_check = "select * from mysecondtable where email='$email' and secondcolumn='on'"; $result_name_check = mysql_query($sql_user_check); $usersfound = mysql_num_rows($result_name_check); if ($usersfound < 1) header("Location: [a href=\"http://www.site.com/stopit.html");\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.site.com/stopit.html");[/a] // if user does exist, continue with processing else header("Location: [a href=\"http://www.site.com/goahead.html");\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.site.com/goahead.html");[/a] Now, everything goes to stopit.html. What am I missing?