No errors, the script simply stops. I have 3 includes this is the last one, right after this it should call the routine to diplay the page header and footer. The script ends, I have placed echo statements and I never get the one after the call to the code above. If I comment out the require_once for this code all is good. But that is a good point I will add an error trap to both the calling program and this one. I also tried converting the remaining html into echo statements, hoping I had messed up the script end and start tags, no joy there either. Correct me if I am wrong but I thought the Require_once simply included the code, and should not cause an error unless the included code does not exist.