Code Problem (Noob Needs Help)

[MadDawgX]

Well, Im kinda new to PHP and MySQL in general, though I do have experience in other languages. Just wondering why the following code won't work.

[code]    $query = "SELECT pass FROM User WHERE user='$user'";
    $res = mysql_query($query) or die("Error Executing Query: ".mysql_error());

    if ($res == $pass) {
        $ans = "1";
    }
    else
    {
    $ans = "2";
    }    [/code]

$user and $pass are both test. And the values in the MySQL database User are (user=test and pass=test)

EDIT: Oh and $ans is returning 2 when it should be 1.

- Thanx

[Janus13]

[quote author=MadDawgX link=topic=102669.msg407798#msg407798 date=1154492954]
[code]    $query = "SELECT pass FROM User WHERE user='$user'";
    $res = mysql_query($query) or die("Error Executing Query: ".mysql_error());

    if ($res == $pass) {
        $ans = "1";
    }
    else
    {
    $ans = "2";
    }    [/code]

$user and $pass are both test. And the values in the MySQL database User are (user=test and pass=test)

EDIT: Oh and $ans is returning 2 when it should be 1.
[/quote]
$res is actually set to the query string, so it'll never equal the password string, not to mention you aren't setting $pass to anything as far as I can tell so $pass is a null value.  You'd have to do something like the following:

My example assumes this is web based, and the previous page had a username and password field for the user to fill out.
[code]
//Use the posted user field as the query variable for user
$query = "SELECT pass FROM User WHERE user='$_POST[user]'";
$res = mysql_query($query) or die("Error Executing Query: ".mysql_error());
//the while loop goes through any results from the database and puts password in a variable, and the mysql_num_rows test makes sure that there are rows
if(mysql_num_rows > 0) {
  while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)) {
    $pass = $row['pass'];
  }
} else {
//No results returned from DB
  echo "Incorrect username or password";
  exit();
}
//value of password field on form page is equal to password in database
if ($_POST['pass'] == $pass)
{
    $ans = "1";
}
else
{
    $ans = "2";
}
[/code]
I hope this is helpful!

Jon