two problems

[rulian]

the first one is a small one,
can anybody tell me why this wont delete a record? :
$delete=mysql_query("delete from messages where mems_id = $id and username = '$username'")

second, I made a user log in, and it works great that it does the log ins and log outs, but when I open a new browser window when i'm on the page, the new window is logged out. any ideas why?

[jc94062]

Well I'd put $id in quotes...

mems_id = '$id'
But if you give the error message or whatever...

Try adding in this to get one...
if ($delete) {
echo "Delete Worked!";
}
else {
echo("<P>Error: " .
mysql_error() . "</P>");
}

The new window may be logged out because its on a different section of the site, setting a cookie in say mysite.com/, won't work in mysite.com/otherarea/ unless you set the cookie to be read all over the site...

setcookie ('name', "value", '', '/');

with the 3rd '' just being for a time variable. Other than that I'm not sure.