Thanks for the reply. I've tries to put that into my page and amend the details but still can't get it to work. My tables are [b]Title[/b] -id - INT, auto_increment -title and [b]Text[/b] -id - INT -text I'm using dreamweaver and this is the code it's produced to insert the id and title, I just need to know where to put your code to carry the id across to the Text table. <?php require_once('Connections/dbconnect.php'); ?> <?php if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) { function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "") { $theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue) : $theValue; $theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ? mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) : mysql_escape_string($theValue); switch ($theType) { case "text": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL"; break; case "long": case "int": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL"; break; case "double": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . doubleval($theValue) . "'" : "NULL"; break; case "date": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL"; break; case "defined": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue; break; } return $theValue; } } $editFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) { $editFormAction .= "?" . htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']); } if ((isset($_POST["MM_insert"])) && ($_POST["MM_insert"] == "form1")) { $insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO title (title) VALUES (%s)", GetSQLValueString($_POST['title'], "text")); mysql_select_db($database_dbconnect, $dbconnect); $Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $dbconnect) or die(mysql_error()); } ?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <form method="post" name="form1" action="<?php echo $editFormAction; ?>"> <table align="center"> <tr valign="baseline"> <td nowrap align="right">Title:</td> <td><input type="text" name="title" value="" size="32"></td> </tr> <tr valign="baseline"> <td nowrap align="right"> </td> <td><input type="submit" value="Insert record"></td> </tr> </table> <input type="hidden" name="MM_insert" value="form1"> </form> <p> </p> </body> </html> Thanks