Hi for several times I wondered why we use so many different ways to create format strings, let's take three examples: $cfg['DefaultQueryTable'] = 'SELECT * FROM %t WHERE 1'; where * %d will be replaced by the database name. * %t will be replaced by the table name. * %f will be replaced by a list of field names. $cfg['Export']['file_template_table'] = '__TABLE__'; where __TABLE__, __DB__ and __SERVER__ are used $cfg['TitleTable'] = '@HTTP_HOST@ / @VSERVER@ / @DATABASE@ / @TABLE@ | @PHPMYADMIN@'; where @HTTP_HOST@, @SERVER@, @VERBOSE@, @VSERVER@, @DATABASE@, @TABLE@ and @PHPMYADMIN@ can be used How about making use just single way to do this and create common function which will do the formatting? I'm somehow more inclined to use %x, however @SOMETHING@ is more self documenting, while __SOMETHING__ looks just too long to me. I know this would be incompatible change, but it looks like we're making enough other big changes for next major version so that it won't be that big issue. -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com