[[solved] you have messages!]

or you can change [b]read[/b] to [b]`read`[/b]

[Login System -- not working]

^ IIANM, php automatically converts constants to string if no declaration is found.. but you should put the single quote to identify it as a string.

Use this code just to be safe
[code]
<form name="login" method="post" action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>">
[/code]

and use this code to retrieve your data coz you set your form method property to POST

[code]
<?php
$username = $_POST['login_username'];
$password  = $_POST['login_password']
?>
[/code]

[check if form is filled out]

// assume your textbox name is 'textbox' and you process the form using POST method

[code]
<?php
if (trim($_POST['textbox']) == '') {
      echo 'Textbox is empty.';
}
else {
      echo 'The textbox has been filled.';
}
?>
[/code]

[Eliminating single apostraphe in echo statements?]

How about this ?

[code]echo "Text wont' always be nice";[/code]