I don't suppose anyone's figured out how to have a function that's part of an argument to another function work. Either that or got a pointer to a php3 support list. I'm trying to make it easier to enter common URL's with a helper function like: function maildev($msg, $name) { echo "<a href=\"http://common.url/$msg\">$name</a>"; } which I then want in: editorial ("Subject", "blah blah blah maildev(msg09711.html, here) blah blah blah "); at the moment I can't force the maildev() function to be evaluated. I've skimmed the PHP manual looking at function and function arguement pages but not seen anything useful. Allan. (ARRae)