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

Try this: $query = "SELECT username,password FROM users WHERE username=\"".$username."\" AND password=\"".password($password)."\""; MySQL needs all string data wrapped in quotes. Maybe the backslashes are a bit confusing at first, but its worth taking the time to understand them. Robert V. Zwink http://www.zwink.net/daid.php -----Original Message----- From: LaserJetter [mailto:newsaddress@saracenvsu.org.uk] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 3:43 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Re: password=password('$password') <----- ? help me... :P Forget that last post - sorry!!! Instead of using password('$password') in the query string, I would insert a line before connecting to the DB: $newpass = password($password) <-- dont need quotes round here then $query = "SELECT username,password FROM users WHERE username=$username AND password=$newpass"; As $username and $newpass are already inside double quotes you dont need to put them in again!! LJ "Hawk" <hwk@barrysworld.com> wrote in message news:20020119194121.43183.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > 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