Just so's you don't think I never get *anything* to work... :) I was showing a colleague how to do some Zope SQL lookups. Tres Neat. Then it came to passing a parameter to the ZSQL method. get_single_event is the following ZSL method argument:: event_num SQL:: select event_num, event_title, DATE_FORMAT(event_date, "%H:%i %W, %M %D") as event_date, event_venue, event_details, event_speaker, event_contact, event_email, upload_ip, DATE_FORMAT(upload_date, "%W, %M %D %H:%i") as upload_date from event where event_num = <!--#sqlvar event_num type=string--> The code that calls it is; <!--#if event_num --> # ie make sure that event_num exists <!--#in get_single_event--> # you *don't* need to make event_num a parameter! <TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="100%"> dump your data... and the whole things works beautifully. I had tried <!--#in get_single_event(event_num) --> , <!--#in "get_single_event(event_num)" -->, <!--#in "get_single_event(REQUEST['event_num'])" --> and all sorts of combinations with no joy. Learning more Zopista tricks day by day... hope this helps, tone. ------ Dr Tony McDonald, FMCC, Networked Learning Environments Project The Medical School, Newcastle University Tel: +44 191 222 5888 Fingerprint: 3450 876D FA41 B926 D3DD F8C3 F2D0 C3B9 8B38 18A2