Is there a coding Error or a better way

troinfo

Hey All,

When a user tries to login using Netscape the login page just seems to refresh and that is it you still see the page but nothing happens. I've checked the the html that is all good as far as netscape is concerned.

Does the code look ok or is there a better way to do it?

My Error checking, re-direction all work fine with IE.

here is the code:

<?
session_start();

$msg = "";

if($action) {

if ((!$username) || (!$password)) {

$msg = "Must enter Username or Password";

}

$db_name = "dbase";

$table_name = "user_info";

$connection = mysql_connect("***", "", "****") or die("Couldn't connect.");

$db = mysql_select_db($db_name, $connection) or die("Couldn't select database.");

$sql = "select username and password from $table_name where username ='$username' and password ='$password'";

$result = mysql_query($sql,$connection) or die("Couldn't execute query 1.");

$num = mysql_num_rows($result);

if ($num == 0) {

$msg = "Bad Login try again.";

}

if ($msg ==""){

$loggedIn = $username;

session_register("loggedIn");

//$enter = "Hello $loggedIn You may <a href=\"../index2.php\"> ENTER</a>";

header("location: ../index2.php?");
}

}
?>

rrijnders

I would still like to see the code for the login page (this is a duplicate post, peeps), but I think your problem may also be that you are specifying a relative path in the header(Location) function. IE and Netscape deal with relative URL's differently (Netscape's is correct, according to W3C).

-- Rich

troinfo

Here is the page:

<?
session_start();

$msg = "";
if($action) {

if ((!$username) || (!$password)) {

$msg = "Must enter Username or Password";

}

$db_name = "dbase";

$table_name = "user_info";

$connection = mysql_connect("***", "*", "***") or die("Couldn't connect.");

$db = mysql_select_db($db_name, $connection) or die("Couldn't select database.");

$sql = "select username and password from $table_name where username ='$username' and password ='$password'";

$result = mysql_query($sql,$connection) or die("Couldn't execute query 1.");

$num = mysql_num_rows($result);

if ($num == 0) {

$msg = "Bad Login try again.";

}

if ($msg ==""){

$loggedIn = $username;

session_register("loggedIn");

//$enter = "Hello $loggedIn You may <a href=\"../index2.php\"><font face=arial size=3> ENTER</a>";

header("location: ../index2.php?");
}

}
?>

</head>
<style type="text/css">
.Link
{
color : white;
CURSOR: hand;

    FONT: 8pt helvetica ;
TEXT-DECORATION: none;
FONT-WEIGHT :normal;

}

.Linkl
{
color : white;
CURSOR: hand;

    FONT: 10pt helvetica ;
TEXT-DECORATION: none;
FONT-WEIGHT :normal;

}

</style>

<table border=0 width=750 align=center cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width=101 height=18><img src="../images/lefttopblue.gif" border=0 width=101 height=18></td>
<td width=530 height=18 bgcolor=white align=middle><font face=arial size=2 color=blue><b>Login</b></font></td>
<td width=18 height=18><img src="../images/dots3.gif" border=0 width=18 height=18></td>
<td width=101 height=18><img src="../images/dots4.gif" border=0 width=101 height=18></td>
</tr>
</table>

<? include ("lside.txt"); ?>

</td>
<td width=10 bgcolor=white> </td>
<td width=528 height=400 bgcolor=white valign=top align=left><br><font face=arial size=2>
<p> <? echo "$msg"; ?><P>
<b>Member Login:</b><p>
<form method=post action="login.php? action=go bit">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
Username: </td><td align=left><input type=text name="username"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Password: </td>
<td align=left><input type=password name="password"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan=2 align=right><input type=submit name=submit value=Go!>

</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
<p>
<table>
<tr>
<td><font face=arial size=2>If you are not a member yet <a href="../signup/signup.php">signup</a> up today and change your Life!</font>
</tr>
</td>
<tr>
<td align=center>
<p><?echo"$enter";?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

</td>
<td width=10 bgcolor=white> </td>
<td width=101 bgcolor=blue valign=top background="../images/bg_rightblue.gif">

<? include ("rside.txt"); ?>

</table>

</td>
</tr>
</table>

<?include("bot.txt");?>

</table>

</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>

rrijnders

You have:

There are spaces in there and you are appending querry string values to the end while you are specifying that the method is "post". I suspect that this is the problem.

Instead of appending the "action=go bit" to the URL, make it an <b><INPUT TYPE="hidden"></b> field in the form. I think that will solve your problem.

-- Rich

troinfo

Like this
<input type="hidden" value="go bit">

BTW thank you very much for your help it is greatly appreciated.

troinfo

fixed it, just took out the space between login? and action and it works fine.
Thanks