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Author Re: [PHP-DB] Beginners Problem
ioannes

2008-01-08, 7:02 pm

I use:

if(ISSET($select_sql_two)&&$select_sql_two<>""&&!is_null($select_sql_two)) {

or

if($select_sql_two=="submit") {

if "submit" is the button value. I am not sure which is best.

John

Ben Stones wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having another problem with PHP, and I have tried rectifying the
> problem with each try failing. The problem I have is, whenever I refresh the
> page or visit the URL to where the login form is (which is index.php), it
> automatically refreshes to the members page, even if I did not click the
> 'Submit' button (with or without the correct login details, for that matter,
> even if I did click the 'Submit' button). I hope someone will be able to
> help me in some way or another to rectify the issue; I have tried seeing all
> possibilities of the problem. Once more, I am relatively knew to PHP, so I
> appreciate help towards the right direction.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben Stones.
>
> (PS: The PHP code is below)
>
> $con = mysql_connect("localhost", "ben_test", "removed") or
> die(mysql_error());
> $db = mysql_select_db("ben_test") or die(mysql_error());
> $user = $_POST['username'];
> $pass = $_POST['password'];
> $select_sql = sprintf("SELECT `username` FROM `users` WHERE `username` =
> '$user' AND `password` = '$pass'", mysql_real_escape_string($user),
> mysql_real_escape_string($pass));
> $select_sql_two = mysql_query($select_sql);
>
> if($select_sql_two) {
> echo 'Redirecting you to members page...';
> echo '[meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;url=members.php" /]';
> }
> else {
> echo 'Error';
> }
>
> I've changed the HTML code, by the way, so it doesn't render the HTML code
> in some mail boxes.
>
>

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