I'm a newbie and I'm lost!!!

[intrigmedia]

Hi, i'm a newbie who try to make a member section according to a tutorial on phpdebutant.com...

this is my open connection to my sql database:

<?php 
$db = mysql_connect('localhost', 'master', 'cyc352med') or die("could not connect to database");mysql_select_db('user',$db);
?>

How can I know if it's work properly? When I'm loading the page nothing happends. It's normal I didnt ask any request...

Once my connection to my database done I have to put that script (doesnt work!!) What wrong?

<?
$db = mysql_connect('localhost', 'master', 'cyc352med') or die("could not connect to database");mysql_select_db('user',$db);
if($login==''||$pass=='')
   {
    echo '<p>Vous avez oublié de remplir un champs.</p>';
    include('login.htm');
    exit;
    }
$sql="select pwd from tbl_user where login='$login'";
$req=mysql_query($sql) or die('Erreur SQL !<br>'.$sql.'<br>'.mysql_error());
$data=mysql_fetch_array($req);
   if($data['pwd'] != $pass){
   echo '<p>Mauvais login / password. Merci de recommencer</p>';
   include('login.htm');
   exit;
   }
else
   {
   session_start();
   session_register('login');
   echo 'Vous etes bien logué';
   include('accessmember.htm');
   }
?>

[Kristopher]

Do you get any error messages or anything?

[sarahk]

Have a look at some of the documentation to see what error messages you can pull off. I suspect you are not even connecting which means that the username info is not right for your local system. I know on my dev machine I have to use quite different info from on my production machine.

[KevinMG]

i've had a similar problem before. one thing that helped me was cleaning up the query a little bit with the divider ' and `

like so:

original: $sql="select pwd from tbl_user where login='$login'";

new: $sql="select pwd from tbl_user where login ='$login'";

otherwise, i'd tend to agree with sarahk