question about passing variables and forms

brokeDUstudent

I'm trying to write a 'Forgot Password' script that will, in the end, send the user their password to their registered email address. So far this is how I have it setup (mind you it could probably be done much better.. but I'm still learning), I have 2 tables.. members and reminders. Members has all the basic user info.. reminders is made up of Username, email, password (all 3 from the members table), reminderquestion and reminderanswer.

The Forgot Password page basically works like this, you type in your username and email address, using PHP SELF it reloads the page, does some checks, and if there's a match in the reminders table it displays the reminderquestion and a field to enter the reminder answer. This is where I'm having a problem.. I think once the user hits submit again, the variables from the first form (their username and email address) are reset so I can't use it in my query with the reminderanswer. I basically want to match the reminder answer with either their username or email address..

So is there anyway to pass variables through multiple forms (if that makes sense)? Or should I try doing this with Sessions.. so confused. Thanks for any ideas, if you need more info/some code.. I'll be glad to post.

brokeDUstudent

leatherback

Hi,

You can very easily do this through hidden fields:

< input type=\"hidden\" name=\"username\" value=\"$username\">

kevinsequeira

post your code

reg
kevin

brokeDUstudent

When the forgot password page first loads up, it displays a form where the user enters their loginName and email address .. after they hit submit, it reloads the page w/PHP SELF and does the following checks

<?php
include 'db.php';

if (@$forgotpw == "yes")
{
//the code was too long to post, it basically did these queries..
//which were checked later after they click submit, 
//if they were ok.. it displays a form that echos their 'Reminder question'
//and they have to enter the answer they used when
//they registered

$sql_email_check = mysql_query("SELECT email FROM reminders WHERE email='$email'"); 
$sql_username_check = mysql_query("SELECT loginName FROM reminders WHERE loginName='$loginName'"); 
$reminder_row_check = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM reminders WHERE loginName='$loginName' AND email='$email'");
$user_email_query = mysql_query("SELECT reminderquestion FROM reminders WHERE loginName = '$loginName'");

}

//After they enter in their "Reminder Answer",
//it reloads the page w/PHP SELF and does this query
// to select their Password to be sent in an email ..
// My problem, I think, is after the user hits submit, 
// the $loginName variable and the $email variable are dropped from the first set of queries..


else if (@$pwreminder == "yes")
{
	$pqanswer = trim($pqanswer);
	$pqanswer = strip_tags($pqanswer);
//query the reminder table to see if there's a match between the reminder question and answer
  $query2 = mysql_query("SELECT pword FROM reminders WHERE reminderanswer = '$pqanswer' AND loginName = '$loginName'");
  $result2 = mysql_result($query2, 0);
  $login_check = mysql_num_rows($query2);

}
?>

kevinsequeira

in this section of the code within the form add this

// the $loginName variable and the $email variable are dropped from the first set of queries..
echo '<input type=hidden name=loginName value='.$loginName.'>';
echo '<input type=hidden name=email value='.$email.'>';

reg
kevin

brokeDUstudent

It worked, thanks for all your help!! 😃