Errors with php authentication script

I am getting this error with the script below:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /htdocs/users/authenticate.php on line 25

I don't see any extra characters, do you guys see any?


<?php

if ((!$username) || (!$password)) { print "Please fill out both entries."; exit;}



$db_name="tempagencyreviews";

$table_name="temp_user";

$connection = @mysql_connect("localhost", "xxxxx", "xxxxx") or die ("Couldn't connect.");

$db= @mysql_select_db($db_name, $connection) or die("Couldn't select database.");

$sql = "SELECT confirmed FROM temp_user WHERE username = '$username'";
$result = mysql_query("select confirmed from temp_user where username='$username'");
if (!$result)
return "Could not execute query";
if ($confirmed == 1) {
print "Your account has not been confirmed. <a href=\"/users/reconfirm.php\">Go here</a>";

exit;
}

$sql="select * from temp_user where username="$username" and password="$password"";

$result = @mysql_query($sql,$connection) or die "Couldn't execute query.");

$num = mysql_numrows($result);

if ($num=0) { $msg = "<p> Congratulations, you're authorized!</p>";} else {
echo "We were not able to authenticate your username. Did you forget your password
and username? <a href=\"/users/retrieve.php\">Retrieve it here</a>. "; exit; }

?>

Change this
To this:

and also change this To this: You forgot the first ( after die

Thanks, that worked perfectly.. you're a godsend

Any time Glad it worked for you.

Did you notice the differences by the way? You can see the color differences in the code.. need to watch the quotes when doing queries..