[auctionguy]

Worked beautifully! Thank you so much for sharing your code with me. I guess I was just taking the wrong approach to this by trying to force the db entry rather than work with the vb code.

I have one more problem, and this may be a dumb question. I want this code to not be in the /forum directory but in the root directory of my site. If I include the global.php file, it includes /includes/class_bootstrap.php. Since my original file is not in the same directory as the global.php, the address to class_bootstrap isn't correct for my original file and I get a cannot find file error. I looked in some of the vb files to see how they solved this problem, and I see that they use this format when in this situation:

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/XXXX.php'); 


Using this "DIR" does not work on my file outside of the forum directory, as I assumed. How can I do the same thing but with my file outside of the forum directory?