hi guys, thanks for everyones help. I was trying to fish some values (email addresses) from database based on the value of someone's username in an acl_users folder. I got it working, I think part of the problem is that ZSQL Methods seem to be real picky about their params. For example "theName" doesn't work as a param but "theName:string" does. Anyway, here's my code tom dtml_method --------------------------------------------- <dtml-in "theOTHERintranet.acl_users.getUserNames()"> <dtml-let uName="_['sequence-item']"> <dtml-in "get_email(theName=uName)"> <a href="mailto:<dtml-var Email>"><dtml-var UserName></a><br> </dtml-in> </dtml-let> </dtml-in> ----------------------------------------------- sql_method "get_email" -------------------------------------------- params :theName:string select UserName, Email from tblUsers where UserName = '<dtml-var theName>';