The first is that XHTML doesn't support the name attribute, so of course my php that processes this login feature won't work with id instead of name. Is there something in PHP that I don't know about? Well in JavaScript I'd just have used the id attribute and then getElementById() in the script. But does PHP have this ability? Or am I just in a pickle of having to put up with it because its the way it is. What is the alternative to using name if you want to use PHP?
Secondly, the page won't validate as XHTML 1.0 strict because of something in the said php code. Mmmm.
http://blog.lindenlangdon.com/prototype/
The php code is
$username = strip_tags(trim($_POST['username']));
$password = strip_tags(trim($_POST['password']));
if (isset($logon)) // if login is pressed { // open the database and check if the user exists include("level/include/dbfuncs.inc"); $link = connectToDatabase(); if(!link) { print "<p>database connection error</p>"; mysql_close($link); exit(); }
// run a query to get all of the user and password combinations
$query = "select * from member where username = \"$username\" && password = \"$password\"";
$result = mysql_query($query);
// if one set matches
if (mysql_num_rows($result)== 1)
{
header("location: level/form/submission.php"); // go to submission.php
}
else
{
header("location: index.php"); // go to index.php again
}
}
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Any advice on this one would be greatly appreciated thanx. Its got me stumped.
Steven Clark www.nortypig.com www.blog.nortypig.com
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