Hi!
So due to this pandemic I've decided to do some programming just for fun in preparation for school in september. I am currently focused on just creating a simple login and registration page. The registration page is supposed to add the users entered data into the MYSQL database and then redirect to the home page. That works just fine. But when I try to login using the information the user registered with it gives me the error that i created that it is incorrect which it is not so I don't think it's actually saving and I'm unsure why...
This is the code for my server and creating the errors and what its supposed to do when the button is pressed
<?php
session_start();
// variable declaration
$username = "";
$email = "";
$errors = array();
$_SESSION['success'] = "";
// connect to database
$db = mysqli_connect('localhost', 'root', 'deanna1999', 'registration');
// REGISTER USER
if (isset($_POST['registerbtn'])) {
// receive all input values from the form
$username = mysqli_real_escape_string($db, $_POST['username']);
$email = mysqli_real_escape_string($db, $_POST['email']);
$password_1 = mysqli_real_escape_string($db, $_POST['password_1']);
$password_2 = mysqli_real_escape_string($db, $_POST['password_2']);
// form validation: ensure that the form is correctly filled
if (empty($username)) { array_push($errors, "Username is required"); }
if (empty($email)) { array_push($errors, "Email is required"); }
if (empty($password_1)) { array_push($errors, "Password is required"); }
if ($password_1 != $password_2) {
array_push($errors, "The two passwords do not match");
}
// register user if there are no errors in the form
if (count($errors) == 0) {
$password = md5($password_1);//encrypt the password before saving in the database
$query = "INSERT INTO users (username, email, password)
VALUES('$username', '$email', '$password')";
mysqli_query($db, $query);
$_SESSION['username'] = $username;
$_SESSION['success'] = "You are now logged in";
header('location: home.php');
}
}
// ...
// LOGIN USER
if (isset($_POST['login'])) {
$username = mysqli_real_escape_string($db, $_POST['username']);
$password = mysqli_real_escape_string($db, $_POST['password']);
if (empty($username)) {
array_push($errors, "Username is required");
}
if (empty($password)) {
array_push($errors, "Password is required");
}
if (count($errors) == 0) {
$password = md5($password);
$query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='$username' AND password='$password'";
$results = mysqli_query($db, $query);
if (mysqli_num_rows($results) == 1) {
$_SESSION['username'] = $username;
$_SESSION['success'] = "You are now logged in";
header('location: home.php');
}else {
array_push($errors, "Wrong username/password combination");
}
}
}
?>