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Hey I was working through a PHP tutorial for building a php registration and login script. I was able to get the registration script to work fine but I'm having trouble with the PHP login script I keep getting the following error when I test the form:

 

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /public_html/login/login.php on line 23

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /public_html/login/memberspage.php on line 29

 

Here is the login.php file minus the actual db login info for obvious reasons:

 

<?php

//Database Information

$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbname = "your database name";
$dbuser = "username";
$dbpass = "yourpass";

//Connect to database

mysql_connect ( $dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass)or die("Could not connect: ".mysql_error());
mysql_select_db($dbname) or die(mysql_error());

session_start();
$username = $_POST['username'];
$password = md5($_POST['password']);

$query = "select where username='$username' and password='$password'";

$result = mysql_query($query);

if (mysql_num_rows($result) != 1) {
$error = "Bad Login";
    include "login.html";

} else {
    $_SESSION['username'] = "$username";
    include "memberspage.php";
}

?>

 

Here is the memberspage.php file:

 

<?

// members page

session_start();

if ( empty( $username ) ) {

    print "Please login below!";

    include 'login.html';

} else {

// you can use regular html coding below the ?>
// and before the <?

?>

<html>
<head>
<title>MEMBERS ONLY</title>
</head>
<body>
Your Members Page....
</body>
</html>

<?

 

I went through other tutorials and tried altering the offending lines but I wasn't able to get it to work right.

 

Also, I'm looking to add a logout script to the memberspage.php file. I want the user to be able to click a simple href link that will log them out. How do you attach a logout php file to a normal link?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! ???

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Hi there, lets take a quick look at this then!

 

In login.php the line

 

$query = "select where username='$username' and password='$password'";

 

two problems, your not telling it which data to select and from which table

it should read roughly

 

$query = 'select * from users '."where username='$username' "." and password=password('$password')";

 

NOTE: that 'users' above is the name of my user table within my DB - yours could be different depending on how you set it up.

 

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The second Parse error in memberspage.php looks like, the <? sitting on its own on the last line!!

 

 

 

 

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