Email activation error

[markspec87]

[code]<?php
include("config.php");

mysql_select_db($dbname)
or die ("Could not select database because ".mysql_error());
// check if the username is taken
$check = "select id from users where username = '".$_POST['username']."';";
$qry = mysql_query($check) or die ("Could not match data because ".mysql_error());
$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($qry);
if ($num_rows != 0) {
echo "Sorry, that username $username is already taken.<br>";
echo "<a href=/signup.php>Try again</a>";
exit;
} else {

$t= time();
// insert the data

$insert = mysql_query("insert into users values ('".$_POST['username']."',
'".$_POST['password']."','','1', '".$_POST['avatar']."', '".$_POST['email']."', '0','$t',

'".$_POST['age']."', '".$_POST['location']."', '".$_POST['clan']."', '".$_POST['website']."',

'".$_POST['about']."')")
or die("Could not insert data because ".mysql_error());

$url='http://www.mysite.com/activate.php?hash='.md5($_POST['password']).’&stamp=’.base64_encode($t);

$to = $_POST['email'];
$subject = "Account Activation";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$from = "[email protected]";
$headers = "From: $from";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);


echo "Your user account has been created!<br>";
echo "An activation email has been sent to " .$_POST['email']. "<BR>";

}
?>[/code]

This is my complete signup / email ativation page and it throws the error:

[quote]Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in ....[/quote]

any ideas?

[jwk811]

what line is this error focused on?

[ataria]

if ($num_rows != 0) {

not sure about that line...
I would just do '($num_rows > 0)

I may be incorrect, though.

[markspec87]

Sorry for missing that

[quote]Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /home/..... on line 28[/quote]

[Philip]

[code]<?php
$url='http://www.mysite.com/activate.php?hash='.md5($_POST['password']).’&stamp=’.base64_encode($t);
?>[/code]

Look at ’&stamp=’ (on line 27) - use normal single quotes

Fixed:
[code]<?php
include("config.php");

mysql_select_db($dbname)
or die ("Could not select database because ".mysql_error());
// check if the username is taken
$check = "select id from users where username = '".$_POST['username']."';";
$qry = mysql_query($check) or die ("Could not match data because ".mysql_error());
$num_rows = mysql_num_rows($qry);
if ($num_rows != 0) {
echo "Sorry, that username $username is already taken.<br>";
echo "<a href=/signup.php>Try again</a>";
exit;
} else {

$t= time();
// insert the data

$insert = mysql_query("insert into users values ('".$_POST['username']."',
'".$_POST['password']."','','1', '".$_POST['avatar']."', '".$_POST['email']."', '0','$t',

'".$_POST['age']."', '".$_POST['location']."', '".$_POST['clan']."', '".$_POST['website']."',

'".$_POST['about']."')")
or die("Could not insert data because ".mysql_error());

$url='http://www.mysite.com/activate.php?hash='.md5($_POST['password']).'&stamp='.base64_encode($t);

$to = $_POST['email'];
$subject = "Account Activation";
$message = "Hello! This is a simple email message.";
$from = "[email protected]";
$headers = "From: $from";
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);


echo "Your user account has been created!<br>";
echo "An activation email has been sent to " .$_POST['email']. "<BR>";

}
?>[/code]

[markspec87]

Thanks :)

however when i complete the form now and it loads this page it always says:
[quote]
Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.[/quote]

is this related? or just bad timing?

[marcus]

That's an apache error. Usually if your code is like cgi or pl.