Query from Form elements

Anon

I have a mysql table called "users" that I i need to use for authentication. i have a html form that posts to a php file to check the username and password. I can't seem to get the my query to take the values from the form in the php file. Here is what I have:

"SELECT * FROM user WHERE username = 'form.username' ";

I plan to check the password and some other information with some "if" statements.

to my question.. can you tell me what is wrong with my query?

-bill

Anon

This sounds like you haven't read the reply to your last post.

Anon

id did.. and I can get it to work using both methods:

form.username and $HTTP_POST_VARS['username']

here is the link:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php

but when I plug it into my query I still get an error.

Anon

Why try form.username? This is PHP, not Javascript (PS: there are at least three, not counting trying to use Javascript syntax).

Not being psychic, I can't help with the error without knowing what it was.