Re: password=password('$password') <----- ? help me... :P

I've got a typo near the bottom: left(password('$cPasswordf),10)"; should be left(password('$cPassword'),10)"; (Strange, the "f" is nowhere near " ' ") mt At 05:41 PM 1/19/2002 -0400, Miles Thompson wrote:

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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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