wahhh still no luck!! I think it has something to do with those special characters... i saw some examples on php forums and it goes like below... [b]removing special characters[/b] [quote]$name = $_GET['name']; $var = $name; $stripped = ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z0-9 ]", "", $var); echo $stripped;[/quote] or this two... [quote]$text = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9_ -]/s', '', $text); $text= preg_replace('/[^\w\d_ -]/si', '', $text);[/quote] it's about accepting 0-9 and a(A) to z(Z) characters only and that's what i want on my WVM tracker. heheh... i'm still when it comes to php... i have no idea how to apply those examples... anyways Thanx friend!! I hope i can or somebody can figure it out later...