Aurorius

or you can change [b]read[/b] to [b]`read`[/b]

^ IIANM, php automatically converts constants to string if no declaration is found.. but you should put the single quote to identify it as a string. Use this code just to be safe [code] <form name="login" method="post" action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>"> [/code] and use this code to retrieve your data coz you set your form method property to POST [code] <?php $username = $_POST['login_username']; $password  = $_POST['login_password'] ?> [/code]

// assume your textbox name is 'textbox' and you process the form using POST method [code] <?php if (trim($_POST['textbox']) == '') {       echo 'Textbox is empty.'; } else {       echo 'The textbox has been filled.'; } ?> [/code]

How about this ? [code]echo "Text wont' always be nice";[/code]