To all Zopists, <background> I have a form that has several dynamically generated options from a MySQL database. I have each option using a hard-coded array like name="mylist[0]", name="mylist[1]", etc..., and keep the value blank unless selection is made. Everything is working fine. In the next page, I will insert the Authenticated_user as the userid, and another field into a table in the MySQL database. When I get to the next page, I have: ... <dtml-in mylist> <dtml-if "_['sequence-item'] != ''"> <dtml-if "countuser(`AUTHENTICATED_USER`) < 6"> ##countuser counts user in table will be inserted into tabel here... </dtml-if> </dtml-if> </dtml-in> ... People are only allowed to have 5 entries in the table. </background> Here are my questions: 1. Should I use an External Method that accesses a ZSQL Method to insert the fields into the table? (please give me an example of this, it sounds interesting...) 2. Is there a way to only use the first 5 listings of the sequence? Maybe save into another list, then go directly to a ZSQL method insert? 3. Should I just quit and go home? :o) Any help would be greatly appreciated. virtually, Joseph A. Archer IT Coordinator Facilities Management James Madison University archerja@jmu.edu