first of all, this new forum sucks. searching for anything isn't version specific, so i'm searching through endless junk.my problem is i have a field called date needed, and i want it to NOT be required. i have checked my class.ticket.php and have the field set to '0', and have comments eddited out with // to not check for it. somehow the field is still required. can someone help? the file attachment says .php is not allowed, so i'm not sure how to let someone view the code. email me rixr@yahoo.com if you want to see the php file .--