RE: [PHP] Making a Password Confirmation in PHP

Yes, it is. D -----Original Message----- From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 8:32 PM To: Floyd Resler Cc: PHP Subject: Re: [PHP] Making a Password Confirmation in PHP On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 14:29 -0400, Floyd Resler wrote: > On Jun 24, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Michael Calkins wrote: > > > > > This is very straight forward, if password a and b are not equal to each other, how can I let the user know that with out losing all of the entered information on the registration form? > > I was trying this: > > ---$p1 = "<input type=\"password\" name=\"usr_p1\" > > />"; > > $p2 = "<input type=\"password\" name=\"usr_p2\" />"; > > // if they > > didn't match return > > $p1 = "<input type=\"password\" name=\"usr_p1\" > > value=\"" . $p1 . > > "\"/>";--- I was trying to change the value of the variable which shows the input field to have the password already in it. > > and either one would just be echo'd depending on the result. > > Any ideas please? > > > > From,Michael Calkinsmichaelcalkins@live.com > > > > > If you aren't opposed to using JavaScript, I'd do it there. If you don't want to use JavaScript then you can load the form data from the $_POST (or $_GET) array that was passed back to your script. > > Take care, > Floyd > > > Is Javascript allowed to read the value of password boxes? I was of the understanding that it couldn't, so checking if a password field matches another is pretty moot. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk