I'm trying to keep track of all the movies a person votes for via their IP address. This script inserts the users ip address and the fact they voted for movie 1 by changing the column 1 (signifying movie one) to the number 1 (default = 0 = not voted)...I really want to make the column 1 a variable and really don't want to change using an int as as my column. $sqlr = "INSERT INTO voters (ip,1) VALUES ('$ip',1)"; mysql_query($sqlr) or die(mysql_error()); all values confirmed....db structure checked. Please help!! Thank you so much - Justin