Hawk,
Pardon me for not following this thread very closely, but I just played
around at the MySQL console. The fields I have are cName c(20) and
cPassword(10)
This executed OK
insert admin (cName, cPassword) values ('Deb', password('peaches'));
select cName, cPassword from admin;
returned
Deb : 041ae71715
select cName, cPassword from admin where cName = 'Deb' and cPassword =
password('peaches');
returned
Empty Set (Uh Oh! -- Thought a bit ...)
select cName, cPassword from admin where cName = 'Deb' and cPassword =
left(password('peaches'),10);
returned
Deb : 041ae71715
I've left the field names out just for convenience, but this leads me to
two questions:
1. Password is the name of a function and you're using it as a field name.
Can you confirm that MySQL isn't choking on that?
2. Could field length be the problem?
A query of this form works
select cName, cPassword from admin where cName = 'Deb' and cPassword =
left(password('peaches'),10);
so in PHP this should work
$cName = 'Deb';
$cPassword = 'peaches';
$qry = "select cName, cPassword from admin where cName = '$cName' and
cPassword = left(password('$cPasswordf),10)";
etc ....
Have you echoed your query and what does it display?
I hope this is helpful - Miles
At 08:41 PM 1/19/2002 +0100, Hawk wrote:
>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
>
>
>
>
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