no no... i understood Shawn fully. The reason I have the information in $objConn is because I followed Shawn's advice and looked at the DBConnOpen() link. In the commented-out information, the example shows:

Code:
;EXAMPLE       $objConn = DBConnOpen('DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; UID=; PWD=; DBQ=database.mdb')



so that is what I was using for a basis. and since DBConnOpen()'s other vars are optional, I didn't put anything else. Is my code still wrong?