Re: Damn Cookie

what is probably happening is that your file, page.html is setting the variable user_name to a value at some point in the script. The URL you gave effectively is the same as making the first two lines of the file read $user_name='name'; $password='password'; Hence if a subsquent line in the script then sents $user_name to a different value then this will replace 'name'. TGhis would happen, for example if you read from a cookie to find out the name. One simple way around this is... if(!$user_name) { //code to execute if $user_name hasn't alread got a value } On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, John Starkey wrote: > I'm not sure if this is my problem but it's wigging me out. > > I've got a login page posting only the user_name and password vars. No > matter what it's using the same name over again. > > http://......./page.html?user_name=name&password=password > > When i open page.html and do echo $user_name it still doesn't echo the > name above. Nothing is happening before the echo. > > I just checked with mac and it logged in the first time showing the user > that I entered and is in the url. But when I went back and logged in under > a diff name it retained the original name. > > Anyone know what's going on? > > Thanks, > > John > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >