Hi Gugi,

I'm illiterate in php. 'Don't know if its very human-readable. I understand how the logic must be comprehended. Gremlins have a way of breaking things elsewhere when you try to fix someplace else.

A good question would be if a stored proc that executed upon marking 'sold' could play nice w/ the logic that counts for the sake of status. If the counting logic doesn't care that a new value is held - just uses it, the update (sold) function could be the only place any a change had to occur. (upon 'sold', set expiration date to sysdate + 1) 'Makes me wish I was closer to the devs, and or the code to be able to do some lifting on the effort.

Either way, I appreciate your kind effort, and that of the other devs. 'Seems an unfortunate change of business rules (in the code) that have caught a number of us in pita situation. You guys have GOT to be really tired of hearing about it. Hang in there.