thank you. yeah, this script is only for updating pricing on the admin in. who wants to individually update pricing one at a time for EACH mfg (we have maybe 200 mfgs) and each mfg has 100-900 part numbers. so this scripty helps a lot. go figure, this is from 2001 oscommerce days and it still works haha (of course with minor changes as php upgrades affected it to not work)

thanks again so much for your helpful insight