Please help. http://babynames.pregnancy.yahoo.com/bnfname.htm?n=Patrick paste this into the browserbar and you'll see the result-page... but try this through the fopen function via PHP. I DONT get that! do YOU know any resolutions??? my target is it: to get some informations about variable firstnames into a variable. if this string contains "boy" i know the gender (else "girl") through this way i could skip the "gender" option in my contact-formulars. e.g. for the personal message "thank you, mrS Jackson" ... i hope someone can help. thanks! Tribun --- www.mp3o.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]