managed to get it working with the $post[field5] but me being silly and jumping the gun found out that it posts the url as it should but the script does not recognise the actual $post[field5] because its not been added by myself in the if statement
i could never add them all to the php file it would be silly and we have alot of signups all with different stores (hence what the $item is for)
is it possible to make the script turn anything that is entered in a url be searched for as $item instead of having to know from the script what it is ?
i.e
http://www.mysite.com/forums/store.php?item=anything
and then it will search a product (because i can search using a form from my search page aimed at its self (store.php) and it will look for anything because in the form the variable is $item)
but thanks very much danny you have been a great help and made me code nice and tidy
Regards
Mickie D