[ptmuldoon]

Well, I'm not thinking of removing the else clause, but to expand upon it. If I understand everything, images are placed in an images/articles/5/ folder, with a new folder number being added for each article submitted.

So I'm thinking you place a default.gif in your images/articles folder.

Then you add in an additional elseif above the else clause. Now, when a user submits an article, first it will look for the user submitted image. If thats not there, it will look for the default.gif to use. And if it can't find either, to give you the error message of no image found.

Again, I know just enough about php to be dangerous and mess something up. But I'm going to give this a shot tonight when I get back to my home pc, and take a look at my php intro books that I have.