Non-techie needs help

[Anon]

Hi -

First, let me say this - if this post is seen in any way as an intrusion, please excuse me! It's just that I'm sort of in a bind, and I hope someone here can help.

Here's the deal. I am relaunching my website on Monday and a PHP error has started to appear -- while my programmer has not! I am guessing that this is something very simple that one of you can look at for a moment and spot. The other thought is that someone here in the design end of things mucked with a php file using a Mac and (I understand) that can cause the server not to see hard returns, etc.

Any help would be appreciated!

Anyway - here is the error we're getting on a page called collect.php>>>>

Warning: Missing argument 1 for validate_or_login() in /usr/home/wac/www/html/waclib.php on line 9

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Now, here are the first 30 or so lines of code from waclib.php >>>>>>>

<?

Library of common functions for WAC

require("fkslib.php");

Returns a user key, or redirects to an optional login page if user

didn't log in correctly.

function validate_or_login($redirect) {
global $user, $pass, $SERVER_NAME;

if(!(isset($user) and isset($pass))) {
if($redirect) {
    header("Location: $redirect");
}
html_die("Did not get a user and/or password");
exit;
}

$result=mysql_query("select k from user where user='$user' and

password='$pass'") or html_die("Couldn't validate '$user': ".mysql_error());
if(mysql_num_rows($result)==0) {
if($redirect) {
header("Location: $redirect");
exit;
}
html_die("Could not log in $user, please try again");
exit;
}
list($key)=mysql_fetch_row($result);
return($key);
}

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...and here are the first 20 or so lines of code from the page which is displaying the error (collect.php)>>>>

<?
#

Tweakable parameters

#

Maximum number of pictures allowed

$PIC_LIMIT=15;

#

End of tweakable parameters

#

require("waclib.php");

Takes a flag string and a flag to remove, returns the new flag string

function deflag($fs,$target) {
$fa=split(",",$fs);
while($f=array_pop($fa)) {
$f != $target and $fr[]=$f;
}
$fr and $result=join(",",$fr);
return($result);
}

open_database();
session_start();

$k=validate_or_login();

[brandonschnell]

validate_or_login() requires a string for a redirect.

you should have a page for incorrect passwords so use something like:

validate_or_login("/path/to/bad/user_pass.php");

then the function will send the browser to that page if the password is rejected.

optionally you can use:
validate_or_login("/");
which will send the user back to the home page, but without any indication of what went wrong.