returning errors

[eschuppe]

Hello everyone,

 

I've been using $message to post an error if there is one however when I hit registers on the form it returns a blank page.. I'm stuck i've beenusing this method on several other pages and it works fine. Also, if I post errors through header it works but I don't want to post that way since it wont match the look of other pages. Aside from header, it works if I change from printing from variable to just die it works perfectly fine. However, I do not want it to clear the form I want it to print the error above the form. Any idea why this is not working?

 

the URL is www.ericschuppe.com/register.php

<?php 
session_start();


include ('dbc.php'); 


if ($_POST['Submit'] == 'Register')
{
if (strlen($_POST['full_name']) < 1)
   {
   $message .= '<p>Incorrect email, please enter valid email address.</p>';
    }
   if (strlen($_POST['email']) < 5)
   {
   $message .= '<p>Incorrect email, please enter valid email address.</p>';
    }
   if (strcmp($_POST['pass1'],$_POST['pass2']) || empty($_POST['pass1']) )
{
    $message .= '<p>Password does not match or empty.</p>';

}
if (strlen($_POST['user_idnum']) < 4)
    {
        $message .= '<p>Incorrect ID number. Please enter a valid ID number.</p>';
    }
if (strcmp(md5($_POST['user_code']),$_SESSION['ckey']))
{
     $message .= '<p>Invalid code entered. Please enter the correct code as shown in the Image.</p>';
  		} 
$rs_duplicates = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM users WHERE user_email='$_POST[email]'");
$duplicates = mysql_num_rows($rs_duplicates);

if ($duplicates > 0)
{
//die ("ERROR: User account already exists.");
$message .= '<p>User account already exists, Try Again.</p>';
}
$rs_duplicates_id = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM users WHERE user_idnum='$_POST[user_idnum]'");
$duplicates_id = mysql_num_rows($rs_duplicates_id);

if ($duplicates_id > 0)
{
    $message .= '<p>Student ID already exists, Try Again.</p>';
    exit();
}


$md5pass = md5($_POST['pass2']);
$activ_code = rand(1000,9999);
$server = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
$host = ereg_replace('www.','',$server);
mysql_query("INSERT INTO users
              (`user_email`,`user_pwd`,`user_idnum`,`joined`,`activation_code`,`full_name`)
			  VALUES
			  ('$_POST[email]','$md5pass','$_POST[user_idnum]',now(),'$activ_code','$_POST[full_name]')") or die(mysql_error());

unset($_SESSION['ckey']);
echo("Registration Successful! An activation code has been sent to your email address with an activation link...");	

exit;
}	
        	if (isset($message)) {
       echo '<font color="red">', $message, '</font>';
       }
?> 
<link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<?php if (isset($_GET['msg'])) { echo "<div class=\"msg\"> $_GET[msg] </div>"; } ?>
<p> </p>
<table width="65%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr> 
    <td class="mnuheader"><strong><font size="5">Register Account</font></strong></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td class="forumposts"><form name="form1" method="post" action="register.php" style="padding:5px;">
        <p><br>
          Name: 
          <input name="full_name" type="text" id="full_name">
          </p>
        <p>Email: 
          <input name="email" type="text" id="email">
          </p>
        <p>Password: 
          <input name="pass1" type="password" id="pass1">
          Atleast 5 characters</p>
        <p>Retype Password: 
          <input name="pass2" type="password" id="pass2">
        </p>
        <p>
        ID Number:
         <input name="user_idnum" type="text" id="user_idnum">
         </p>
        <p>
          <input name="user_code" type="text" size="10">
          <img src="pngimg.php" align="middle">  </p>
        <p align="center"> 
          <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Register">
        </p>
      </form></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<div align="left"></div>
</body>
</html>

 

Thanks ahead of time.

[MasterACE14]

change this...

<?php
       	if (isset($message)) {
       echo '<font color="red">', $message, '</font>';
       }

to this...

<?php
       	if (isset($message)) {
       echo '<font color="red">'.$message.'</font>';
       }