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I don't believe your response has much to do with my problem, but as for why I don't use sessions is because honestly, this web project started out when I first started learning php, and I had no clue what sessions even where back then, and now that my entire system runs with cookies, I'd rather not rewrite it until I do a major rehaul of everything. I plan here when I get to the point, I will go ahead and rewrite the entire code and I might just switch to using sessions.

Okay, I run a website; I wrote it from scratch, it's own database. With this website, I also run a news section (Run by wordpress), a wiki (Run by MediaWiki), A chat system (X7Chat), and a Live Help system (Mibew Messenger). I am looking to integrate all four of these systems to run off the same login as my main website. I would like it so that when the user logs in to the main site, it automatically logs in and sets the cookies for the other 4 systems. I also want it so when a user registers, it automatically registers them on the other 4 systems. I have achieved this with the chat system. I duplicated the Cookies and I have it so that if a user logs in to the main site, it sets the cookies for the chat, and when a user registers, or changes their password or email, it updates it on the chat table. But, I am finding it quite more difficult for the Wiki, Wordpress, and the Live Help system. The cookies were easy to duplicate for the chat system, and inserting the rows was fairly simple for the chat system, but it is quite a bit more complicated with the other systems. I am hoping someone here has done this before and could help me out on this one, because I am clueless. Thanks in advance for all that help.

I tried run a SELECT query to return the row of my users from my database, and then if something like if ($row['username'] != $array['inputtedusername']) but it didn't do anything, I guess I did something wrong with the array. Someone Please help.

So basically I have a site, and on that site, I have a page that submits a form and updates a database. I have it set up so that someone can enter in Multiple values into a textarea, one on each line, and it will submit each of those values as a new row in the database, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to check those values against the actual users. It is basically a point system, where the staff can award points users of the site. But at the moment, a Staff member could enter in Jibberish, and it would insert that into the database, but I want it to check my users table to make sure the user exists before it inserts it into the database. here is my code: <?php include 'global.php'; echo $headersidebar; if ($_COOKIE['access'] == $accessstaff) { if(count($_POST)) { $array = preg_split('/(\r?\n)+/', $_POST['studentname']); foreach($array as $students) { $statusmsg = '<center><span style="background: #A6FF9E;">You have successfully submitted points to the database.</span></center>'; mysql_query("INSERT INTO points (giver, receiver, points, category, reason, date, status) VALUES ('{$_COOKIE['username']}', '{$students}', '{$_POST['pointamt']}', '{$_POST['pointcat']}', '{$_POST['pointreason']}', '{$date}', 'Validating')"); } } $addpointspage = $statusmsg . ' <form action="submit_points.php" method="post"> <table class="table" > <tr> <td colspan="10"> <h1><strong><center>Submit Points</center></strong></h1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="10" rowspan="100"> <center>Please remember to follow the house point limits when submitting house points.</center> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="table"> <tr> <td style="width: 15%;" valign="top"> Student Name:<br> <span style="font-size: 60%;">(List as many as you want; One per Line)</span> </td> <td colspan="10"> <center><textarea name="studentname" cols="60" rows="10"></textarea></center> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 15%;" valign="top"> Amount of Points: </td> <td> <input style="position: relative; left: 16px;" type="text" size="15" name="pointamt" /> </td> <td> Do not put anything that is not a number into this box. </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 15%;" valign="top"> Point Category: </td> <td colspan="10"> <select name="pointcat" style="position: relative; left: 16px;"> <option SELECTED value="">-------</option> <option>Class Work</option> <option>Class Exam</option> <option>Extra Work</option> <option>Contests</option> <option>Teacher\'s Assistant</option> <option>Negative Points</option> </select> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 15%;" valign="top"> Reason: </td> <td colspan="10"> <input style="position: relative; left: 16px;" name="pointreason" type="text" size="80" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td colspan="10"> <input style="position: relative; left: 16px;" type="submit" value="Submit Points" /> </td> </tr> </table </form> '; } elseif (1==1) { $addpointspage = $accessdenied; } echo ' <!-- start content --> <div id="content"> <div class="post"> <div class="entry"> <p><strong>' . $addpointspage . '</p> <p class="links">' . $addpointslink . '</p> </div> </div> </div> <!-- end content --> <div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div> <!-- end page --> </div>'; echo $footer; ?> I am fairly new to PHP, so I would appreciate any help someone could give me; I am not too good with arrays and such, so this one has got me stumped.