Thanks for posting alex, but i got it working :) Now i'm working on my next thang which involves adding fields to the database and then viewing those fields on each persons profile. Is there a built in function to get the id or profile id of the member whose profile i'm currently viewing. there are a couple to get currently logged in id but i can't find one to get the "persons" id that im currently looking. tried grabbing it from the url but that doesn't work correctly with php for some reason