well dude u never showed what the parser returned, i am pretty sure u need curly brackets if u are including more than one line in an if statement
-----Original Message----- From: Togochog Enhebatu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: help on PHP code hi, Can any one help find the bug of the following code for me? I am new in MySQL and PHP, and trying to varify the user ID and password. help is appreciated. batu, ************ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> <html> <head><title>Customer Details</title></head> <body bgcolor="green"> <h1>Customer Details</h1> <?php $nickname = $HTTP_POST_VARS['nickname']; if(empty($nickname)) echo '<br>nickname field should not be blank.'; $password = $HTTP_POST_VARS['password']; if(empty($password)) echo '<br>password field should not be blank.'; ?> <?php $connection=mysql_connect("localhost","csc3223","abdasa"); mysql_select_db("csc3223",$connection); $result=mysql_query("SELECT nickname,password,status FROM Exam_Provider WHERE (n ickname = $nickname) and (password = $password)", $connection); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { echo "you have not been approved yet"; } mysql_close($connection); ?> <a href="form.html"><br><br>Return to the customer form</a> </body> </html> _________________________________________________________________ Watch high-quality video with fast playback at MSN Video. Free! http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200365ave/direct/01/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
