drsimcox Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 im currently leaning php, and im stuck with this basic code for a very basic login system. I was hoping someone could spot the mistake i have made... ********** <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <form action="passwords.php" method="POST" > <h1>login</h1> <p> Username: <input type="text" size="4" maxlength="20" name="username" /><br /> Password: <input type="text" size="4" maxlength="20" name="password" /> </p> <p> <input type="SUBMIT" value="Login" /> </p> </form> </body> </html> ******* <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <?php $username = $_POST['username'] ; $password = $_POST['password'] ; if ($username == "Henry" && password == "dobie690") { echo "access allowed"; } elseif ($username == "Sheryl" && password == "28_toads") { echo "access allowed"; } else { echo "warning: declined!"; } ?> </body> </html> *********** The first page sends form information to 'passwords.php' then responds with either "access allowed" or "warning: declined!". like i said this is very basic but im just struggling a little bit... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/205416-basic-login/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 Your missing the $ from both instances of the $password variable. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/205416-basic-login/#findComment-1074987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
drsimcox Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 extremely obvious!! haha thanks Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/205416-basic-login/#findComment-1074988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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