basic password login question

[raze75]

hi, i am very new to php and am trying to set up a password/login script- a very basic one, that will display a page if the pass and log are correect. here is what i have on the index.php page i have this:

<form action="/inventory.php" method="post">
login:
<input name="login" type="text" size="15">
<br>
password:
<input name="pwd" type="text" size="15">
<br>
<input name="" type="submit">
</form>

and on the inventory.php i have this:

<?php
login=$GET["login"];
pwd=$GET["pwd"];
if login=="howdy" and pwd=="mom" {
echo "hi";
echo "you are in";
}
else
echo "wrong!";
?>

im getting this error:

Parse error: parse error in /home/content/k/a/t/kathiesever/html/inventory.php on line 53

and line 53 is this line:
login=$_GET["login"];

any help would be greatly appreciated!!
thanks 🙂
-monique

[azunoman]

you need to prefix your vairables, login pwd with , i.e. $login and $pwd.

Also change the $GET to $POST.

[pablodelapena]

Justa few things i noticed that could be changed to tidy up your code. This is just something I'd do, we all are different so don't think its a dig🙂

<?php 
if (($_POST['login']=="howdy") && ($_POST['pwd']=="mom")) { 
echo "hi"; 
echo "you are in"; 
} else {
echo "wrong!"; 
}
?> 

[laserlight]

Actually, raze75, the problem is simple: your conditionals are not written properly.

They are of the form:

if (conditionA) {
	//do something
}
elseif (conditionB) {
	//do something else (optional)
}
else {
	//do yet another thing (also optional)
}

[raze75]

thanks pablo!!!!!
- i got it working 🙂