I got it! What was screwing it up was the & needed to be '&' in the code. The base strings looked exactly the same, even though they weren't because of this. Also, the equal sign is just appended at the end of the sig, for which you append one on the remote sig before comparision - simple. Hope this helps for anyone ...

[quote user="Drums"] add the code that I pasted above and it should work... the $_GET[''] = ''; bit [/quote] Thanks for your reply, but I actually did add that too and still no luck. Also, it may help to know that my local signature always looks something like this: peAkjKCO+0ipeD+/tvvMUMiG0XI= It always has ...

I'm having problems validating also, and would really like to know something - My base strings match up exactly when using the Oauth Tool, or at least they appear to. Is it possible that, although they are showing the same characters, they could still be different through character type? Other than that, I have no clue why it's not ...

Gottcha, thanks Stephanie! 

 [quote user="My Fun Apps"] My personal experience is that learning from code is always better then going through pages of docs.  [/quote]  I couldn't agree more!

Hey there Rhonda, thanks for your reply. May I ask if the MySpace is still planning on opening applications to the public in March? Thanks!

 I think I speak for a lot of people when I say a nice, simple newbie guide on how construct an app that connects and gathers information from a MySQL database (with PHP) on an outside website would be an excellent resource for the people that have never used OAuth or OpenSocial before, or JSON for that matter.  I'm faily decent ...

An ad unit is just a block of ad(s). I'm assuming what he means is that the ad to be displayed must be served through some type of server call, although I'm not sure how that would work or even what networks support this.

 Any suggestions for networks to use? Adsense or YPN wouldn't work would it?