If I install a php5 module (in this case mcrypt) via synaptic, does it automatically become available, or is there some further configuration that needs to be done? if I do <?php phpinfo( ); ?> it doesn't seem to be listed. I can't see any useful documentation in /usr/share/doc/php5-mcrypt - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/