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Posted by Sandman on 11/18/17 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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Sandman[.net]
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