Try changing all the single quotes to double quotes (' to "). As far as I
know, PHP only expands the contents of the variable if it inside double
quotes, otherwise it reads it as $variableLJ "Hawk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I've been trying to get this to work for a while, and everyone says that I > should use the same thing, but it doesn't work, can anyone tell me what I'm > doing wrong? > from the form on the previous page I have the $username and $password vars > > mysql_connect($host, $user, $pswd); > mysql_select_db($db); > $query = "SELECT username,password FROM users WHERE username='$username' AND > password=password('$password')"; > $result = mysql_query($query); > $num = mysql_num_rows($result); > > the $query line is made up from what everyone has told me to write.. > I tried to add a list($usarname, $pessword) = mysql_fetch_row($result); > and it returned "" .. but when I removed the "AND > password=password('$password')" part the list showed the username and the > password in encrypted form > I don't know how this could help me in any way, but atleast it shows I have > an encrypted password, but the problem is that the line everyone uses > doesn't work.. maybe I need to change some setting in mysql och php.ini or > something? anyone have any idea? > I know I've asked this several times but it doesn't seem like I'm understood > with my problem. Hope I will be now. > > Hawk > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
