|  | Posted by Sandman on 06/15/17 11:43 
In article<1143383987.691175.32830@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 "comp_guy" <gingercrock@hotmail.com> wrote:
 
 > hey guys, i have been working on a simple form which validates if a
 > user is valid or not. i am a newbie and just want to deny
 unauthorised
 > access to a 'members' page. I wish to compare the password entered
 by
 > the user with that they entered into their submitted registration
 > form.. however i keep getting a mySQL error message 'query was
 empty'.
 > i was hope someone would know my failings! here is my code:
 >
 > ?php
 >
 > $connection = mysql_connect("sentinel.cs.cf.ac.uk","scm5sjc","my
 > password here");
 >
 > $password=$_POST['password'];
 >
 > mysql_select_db("sjcdb",$connection) or die("failed!");
 >
 > $sql = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE password =
 '$password'");
 >
 > $result = mysql_query($sql)or die(mysql_error());
 >
 This should be:
 
 $sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE password = '$password'";
 
 $result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
 
 
 
 
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