when a user logs in to the forum, where is the $userinfo array built?

[kh99]

Sounds great, I always wanted to do that kind of thing but never managed to get hired without experience in it.

Anyway, I know what you mean, kind of - my first 7 years of programming was in C and I was used to doing things using pointers extensively, then when I switched to C++ it took me a while to understand the point of adding references to the language when it seemed like using pointers was good enough.