Black-dog first of all most importantly many thanks for the replies. I was fearing that my requests for help would have exceeded peoples patience limits.
One thing i should make clear is that i am not blaming my new hosts for my long serving scripts falling flat.
Your comment about the php upgrade is enlightning. My Lycos one (i'll check in detail later) was a very similar version i am sure, however, maybe it was slightly one update back?.
I'll address the queries that you need answering tonight or tomorrow - i'm just off out right now.
I was going to post the form scripts and complete script for the form action but thought it would either bore/annoy you or take up to much space on the forum. Having said that they are very small.
When i was trying the code snippet you provided i did indeed place it ahead of the mysql query. As to why it didn't work, i will try again when in a calmer frame of mind lol.
I will indeed change all my scripts across my site to use the (new to me) 'mysql_real_escape_string'. First of all i need to get the database running again. It's not accessible to others anyway, as only myself has a username and password for it.
Also, scottie mentioning php.ini now reminds me my parameter print out was obtained from the php documentation. I was searching for it in the mysql docs.
I apologise if this is all now more fitting in the php forum???, but, i find it impossible to separate php and mysql as they 99% of the time go hand in hand. I didn't wish to duplicate my post in both forums. Initially, i presumed the fault lay in the syntax of my mysql scripting.
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