Ya joseph u r right, i am thinking of the url to be generated to be send to the user. I followed u r steps but did not understand some points. >>2.) Store that string to the database somewhere where to store in database, i mean when the user clicks the activation code how to check the users identity.? >>3.) Email the mail to the address specified with the url to the confirm page one must send the email manually or is there any automatic generator for email sending to users.? >>this will confirm that they did in fact check thier email. how exactly, can explain little bit.? thanks -- Joseph Crawford Jr. Codebowl Solutions codebowl@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos