Re: Submitting data to MySQL database using HTML/PHP form

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:55, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:53, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: >> >>    If the value isn't that of your database password, there's your >> problem: register_globals.  A simpler way is to check the output of >> phpinfo(); to see if register_globals is enabled, but either method >> will work. > >    Actually, disregard my answer: I misread your original email about > where each line of code was placed.  My answer is not correct in this > case. Does your login.php file actually use the following closing tag: >? If so, that's backwards, which will cause a parse error on login.php. Closing tags should be ?>, but if it's the last line in a file, you can safely (and perhaps should) omit them. Also, some other pointers: * ALWAYS sanitize user input. At the very least, look into mysql_real_escape_string(). * Don't use the same variable name for multiple things unless you need to do so. It makes debugging more difficult in complex scripts. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Network Infrastructure Manager Documentation, Webmaster Teams http://www.php.net/