redirection with error message/

[Anon]

Hi Friends,

I just ran into a problem.

If someone puts in a login id and password that is incorrect then I have to redirect the person back to the login page giving him an error message that his login id and password is incorrect.

I know that to redirect him back I would have to do header(location : "index.html") from the php page doing authentication,

how can I append an error message to this redirection that would also be displayed on the index page.

I tried header("location : index.html?err=ERROR")
and then tried to print err string on the main page but to no avail.

What am I doin wrong here??

Any help would be appreciated.

[Anon]

you are doing it the right way. on your index page you should put something like:

errStr="";
if(isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['err']))then errStr="Invalid user Id or pass"

then you could use errStr whereever you like on your page.

[deepinder]

Thanks Man,

Thanks very much,

Regards,

Deepinder