Thanks for the reply ... but I don't think this is quite what I am going for.... Assume that I have two webpages, page A and page B... Page A is a form-filled page: <form name="stuff" action="b"> <input type="checkbox" name="item1">Item 1 <BR> <input type="checkbox" name="item2">Item 2 <BR> <input type="submit"> </form> Page B contains the code to look in a SQL database. Inside this database, one of the columns contains information in relation to item1 and item2 that has to be set in "b" somehow. If the user selects checkbox 1, item1 will be defined. Likewise for item2. Both can be set as well. <dtml-in sql_process> <dtml-if <dtml-var check_to_see_if_this_column_exists_with_the_passed_form>> Exists. <dtml-else> Does not exist. </dtml-if> </dtml-in> I need the value of check_to_see_if_this_column_exists_with_the_passed_form parsed so that the dtml-if can "see" it.... If the table contains Name | Value | ... item1 50 item2 75 And replace that long check_to_see_if_this_column_exists_with_the_passed_form with name, for example, it should go through the table, see "name" and then try to see if "item1" was passed from the form. Tricky. Jason Wolfram Kerber wrote:
<dtml-if <dtml-var important_column_that_may_exist_also_as_a_passed_variable> >
should read:
<dtml-if important_column_that_may_exist_also_as_a_passed_variable>
and don't forget to close the dtml-in loop with </dtml-in>
Wolfram