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Xenon,
thank you for the tip on the $username

as for the other thing.....I really meant $browsers rather than $onlineusers (I think) because I only want it to display the members that are on the page at the time.

I looked in index.php and found code starting with this:
"// Users browsing each forum"
and ended with one of these: }
but it refers to the "inforum" colum of the user table......is that going to work?

The reason I ask is that I tried adding the code I found in index.php and put $browsers in the template but nothing showed.

I am a bit lost on this.

thanks for your help