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Okay.. I found the problem that caused the password to not be carried through correctly. My next question has to do with requiring them to be logged in to change password. Remember that I am new to sessions. I started fresh today and went directly to the pwchange.php page and was able to change the password. With my page this way, anyone could change someones password by knowing their email address. This really is part of a broader problem I have, which is how do I require someone to be logged into a session in order to view a page. after that, limit who can change the password for a user. I could require them to enter their old password and check it before processing the change, but that won't help with the other problem. Dave
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[quote author=Wstar link=topic=104666.msg417603#msg417603 date=1155843741] One last question. When I write the following code: [code]$_SESSION['user']="nli"; // nli = Not Logged In session_destroy(); $_SESSION['user'] = "Bob";[/code] Why do I get this error? [quote] Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: /tmp) in /var/www/html/includes/navigation.php on line 13[/quote] |Wstar| [/quote] I don't know about the first portion of your post, but in this last part.. don't you mean to use: sess_destroy(); instead of session_destroy(); I mean you are using a custom session handler, right? Dave
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Doh! When working on a reply to ToonMariner I found a missing _ in $POST['password'] ... I obviously did the same thing when trying to echo the email address .. so I had the error becuase the password wasn't making it through. I am now able to change my password. :) Dave
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Hello, This is my first post here. I have been working with php as a hobbyist for a couple of years, but have never setup a site that requires passwords. I have gone through the "Memebership System" tutorial with great success (I think ;) ). My problem comes in when I try to add a page for the user to change their password. My code is below. For some reason the email address doesn't get carried over from the form. I get the message about forgetting the email address knucklehead. this is my pwchange.php and change_pw.html is below that. [code]<?php session_start(); ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title> Automated </title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <link href="images2/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div id="HEADER"> <?php include "./common/header.php"; ?> </div> <!-- header --> <div id="PATH"> <p><a href="#">Home</a></p> </div> <!-- PATH --> <div id="SIDEBAR"> <h2>RECENT NEWS</h2> <p class="Date">August 17, 2006</p> <p>The Dream Begins. I registered it.</p> <p class="More"><a href="#">Read More</a></p> <h2>Members</h2> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> </div> <!-- sidebar --> <div id="CONTENT"> <? include './common/db.php'; switch($_POST['change']){ default: include 'change_pw.html'; break; case "change": change_pw($_POST['email_address'], $POST['password']); break; } function change_pw($email_address, $password){ if(!$email_address){ echo "You forgot to enter your Email address, <strong>Knucklehead</strong><br />"; include 'change_pw.html'; exit(); } if(!$password){ echo "You forgot to enter your new password, <strong>Knucklehead</strong><br />"; include 'change_pw.html'; exit(); } // quick check to see if record exists $sql_check = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE email_address='$email_address'"); $sql_check_num = mysql_num_rows($sql_check); if($sql_check_num == 0){ echo "No records found matching your email address<br />"; include 'change_pw.html'; exit(); } $db_password = md5($password); $sql = mysql_query("UPDATE users SET password='$db_password' WHERE email_address='$email_address'"); $subject = "Your Password!"; $message = "Hi, you have changed your password. New Password: $password Thanks! The Webmaster This is an automated response, please do not reply!"; mail($email_address, $subject, $message, "From: Webmaster<admin@mydomain.com>n X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion()); echo "Your password has been sent! Please check your email!<br />"; include 'login_form.html'; } ?> </div> <!-- content --> <div id="FOOTER"> <?php include "./common/footer.php"; ?> </div> <!-- footer --> </body> </html>[/code] this is the change_pw.html [code]<form method="post" action="pwchange.php"> Email Address: <input class="text" value="<?php echo $email_address; ?>" name="email_address"><br /> New Password: <input type="password" value="" name="password"><br /> <input type="hidden" name="change" value="change"><br /> <input type="submit" value="Submit Form"> <input type="reset" value="Reset Form"> </form>[/code]