[snip] $query = "INSERT INTO user (name,password) VALUES ($username","$password") would do the job but, it dosent. It gives a Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\php\login\registration_action.php on line 15 [/snip] $query = "INSERT INTO user (name,password) VALUES ("'.$username.'","'.$password.'") "; Try that... should work. your query syntax is mangled. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php