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... Quote Link to comment 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drsimcox Posted June 21, 2010 Author Share Posted June 21, 2010 extremely obvious!! haha thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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