thanks for the help.
with the suggestions, this is what finally resulted,
i figured i'd post it in case it's help to any one else.
<?php
$username = rtrim($HTTP_POST_VARS['username']);
$password = rtrim($HTTP_POST_VARS['password']);
if ($username === "" or $password === "") {
header ("Location: http://www.some.com/badlogin.php";);
}
$db = pg_connect("dbname=some_com user=some_com");
$query = "SELECT * FROM userinfo WHERE firstname='$username'";
$authresult = pg_exec($db, $query);
if (pg_numrows($authresult) < 1) {
header ("Location: http://www.some.com/secure/badlogin.php";);
pg_close ($db);
exit;
}
$row = pg_fetch_row($authresult,0);
$pass=rtrim($row[2]);
if (strcmp($password,$pass)==0) {
mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$random_cookievalue = mt_rand();
setcookie ($REMOTE_ADDR, $random_cookievalue, time()+900);
header ("Location: https://www.some.com/secure/index.php";);
pg_close ($db);
exit;
} else {
header ("Location: http://www.some.com/badlogin.php";);
pg_close ($db);
exit;
}
?>
anyway, it works the way i want it to ;-)
thanks again for your help, everyone.
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