Brian Read

nope, tried that - still fails. Something that has occurred to me. We use a server which hosted remotely, so I did not have access to the "filemaker.php" on the server itself. After quite a bit of googling I found it (I guess on the fm site). However I wonder whether I've actually got the latest? Another "factor" is that the server I am running the web page on is Linux (ubunutu server), I had to install php-curl specifically, would there be anything else I might need? I've tried to look through the filemaker.php and associated files, and could see anything else, but I might have missed something. <later> Strangely enough I am actually developing a "batch" php program to migrate data across, on an Win XP system. It would appear that the date search on there is working as required - from dates made up by date("m/d/Y",strtotime($acrow["DateofBirth"]));" I now have Jonathon Starks book who uses "n/j/Y" to suppress leading zeros on the day and month, but as discussed above, it does not make any difference.

No, there was no validation set on the field, we even tried adding some, but it still failed!

I'll try what you suggest. The documention (such as it is) says that mm/dd/yyyy is the format to use, and this is format that existing dates come over as.

I have this: $findCommand->addFindCriterion("Date of Birth","8/12/1982"); and I get this: Error: Date value does not meet validation entry options I am running out of ideas as to what the problem is. Server is remotely hosted V12 Cheers Brian

I am also keen to understand how I represent this sort of search pattern in php, using the AddFIndCriterion call. I have been unable to find any documentation on it at all, except one example: AddFIndCriterion("Numeric Field Name","<100") Which did not work on my installation (V12). The Criterion field seems to only take a raw pattern, which it looks for in the specified field. Anyone got any info?