Hey, I have a registration process for a upload site I'm creating. When they register a 8 digit long key is created to be their home folder and stored in a mysql table ('users'). Now when they activate their account I want it to create a directory based on the 'directory' key. [!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]<? if ($_GET['action'] == "activate") { ?> <? $alias = $_REQUEST['alias']; $activationcode = $_REQUEST['code']; $sql = mysql_query("UPDATE users SET access='1' WHERE alias='$alias' code='$activation'"); $sql_doublecheck = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE alias='$alias' AND access='1'"); $doublecheck = mysql_num_rows($sql_doublecheck); if($doublecheck == 0){ echo "An error occured during the activation of your account"; } elseif ($doublecheck > 0) { [!--coloro:#CC0000--][span style=\"color:#CC0000\"][!--/coloro--] $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE alias='$alias'"); $row = mysql_fetch_array( $result ); mkdir("/home/nerdco/public_html/uploader/storage/.$row['directory']", 0777); echo "Your account is now active, you may now login"; [!--colorc--][/span][!--/colorc--] } ?> <? exit; }?>[/quote] I've tried to do it but I get the followed error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/nerdco/public_html/uploader/index.php on line 43 Thanks in advance, nerd