[SOLVED] Password

[monkeybidz]

I have a user claiming to not be able enter mmmmmm as password. My script is set to check for length of 6 or more or empty. Could this be something PHP5 cannot recognize? I recreated the issue, but seems works fine on my end.

[monkeybidz]

The user also gets an error when numeric is used before alpha like 123mmmm

<?php
if(!$password){
	return "004";
}
if(strlen($password) < 6){
	return "011";
}
?>

[Xyphon]

The user also gets an error when numeric is used before alpha like 123mmmm

<?php
if(!$password){
	return "004";
}
if(strlen($password) < 6){
	return "011";
}
?>

 

 

why dont you turn the strlen password into something like this

 

if(strlen($password) < 6

 

echo "Sorry, you must have 6 or more characters";

 

else

 

form data here

[monkeybidz]

thats not the problem, they are getting the errors OK, but not registereing 123mmmm as 7 characters or it sees mmmmmm as empty or missing.

[Xyphon]

Ah.. Did you put the exit; afterwards? Because mine says if (strlen($_POST['pass']) < 4)

{

echo "<font color='red'>Sorry, your password must be over 4 characters. Please go <a href='register.php'>back.</a></font>";

exit; and it works perfectly.

[monkeybidz]

That did not work either, I keep getting the error as string length too short. I think it has to do with alpha-numeric. It does not seem to accept numbers before alphabets.

[Crew-Portal]

Try This:

 

FUNCTION:

<?php
function valid_password($pass1)
{
  //validate password
  if(ereg("^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$",$pass1) && strlen($pass1) >= 5 && strlen($pass1) <= 20)
  return true;
  else
  return false;
}
?>

 

FOR SCRIPT:

<?php
if(!valid_password($_POST['pass1'])) {
$error = $tblstart . 'You Did Not Enter A Password Or Your Password Is Invalid' . $tblend;
}
?>

 

This should work, A little more complicated than your code but for verfication the more the merrier!

[monkeybidz]

ereg conflicts with another datacheck on page. How would I put:

 

If $password starts with numbers, then return "Password must begin with an Alphabet."

[corylulu]

Do you have the full function for the code available so we can see any other underlining problems?

 

If you wanna just avoid the issue and put a little disclaimer, yours should do, but in sakes of learning the problem and avoiding it from happening again, i think we should look for a conclusion.

[Crew-Portal]

Im really not sure how to do this and I am always trying new things so here is how I think it would be done...

 

<?php
if(!$password[0](ereg("^[a-zA-Z]+$",$password))) {
$error = 'Your Password Has To Start Off Alpha! (A-Z)';
}
?>

[monkeybidz]

The problem was in Mysql. Table Type.

Thanks!