[SOLVED] need help blocking user

[dose]

ok so i have a gamer card script going with help from a few friends, and we noticed a user putting in random junk..

 

main code is excluded but this is how we are grabbing the user name. my question is how could we make the script stop executing if $user = a certain name?

 

if(!empty($_GET['user'])) {

// cache
$user = str_replace(" ", "", strtolower($_GET['user']));	// remove spaces and lower 

}

 

 

ive tried to use

 

if($user = "kipu") {
exit;
}

 

but when i do that it stops working for every name..

[dgoosens]

if($user = "kipu") {

exit;

}

 

that's because you only used one = sign and thus assign "kipu" to $user

[Bricktop]

Hi dose,

 

Using the following will work:

 

if(!empty($_GET['user'])) {

if($_GET['user']=='kipu')
{
exit();
}
else
{
// cache
$user = str_replace(" ", "", strtolower($_GET['user']));	// remove spaces and lower 
}
}

 

 

Or, you could do it using:

 

if(!empty($_GET['user'])) {
// cache
$user = str_replace(" ", "", strtolower($_GET['user']));	// remove spaces and lower 

if($user=='kipu')
{
exit();
}

}

 

The first method performs the check on the username as it is fetched using the $_GET command, the second method performs the check once the username has been fetched and has been stored into the $user variable.

 

Hope this helps.

[dose]

k ill give it a try later what i get home

[dose]

if($_GET['user'] == "kipu")

{

exit();

}

 

worked thanks much.. tried the other way with $user instead of the get and it wasnt working for whatever reason.