Password confirm?

[Wingman]

Hi there. I got a piece of code where the user is supposed to enter. "Username", "password", and "email". Now I want to add password confirm to that. Any ideas how to make that and it still looks clean? I have tried some methods but they end up with quite strange results, While I can post the code, it's quite huge...

[wilku]

I'm not sure what you want to do. If you want user to input password twice, just add an input named "second_password" to your form, and in the place where you verify user data check if it's the same as "password". Simple as that.

(you don't post code - I can't post any too)

[Wingman]

if ($_POST["password"] == $_POST["password2"]) {
...do whatever shall be done...
} else {
echo "The entered passwords don't match!";
}

i thought about this in class and came with this. Could this work if I have two input, one has the value password, while the other has password2? "still in school so I can't test and confirm it" 🙁

[thorpe]

yeah... that works.

[Wingman]

Then can you tell me why this doesn't work? 🙁 I get a parse error at the line after the last else statement.

$user=$_POST['user'];
$pass=$_POST['pass'];
$email=$_POST['email'];
$confirm_pass=$_POST['pass2'];

if ($_POST['pass2']==$_POST['pass']);
{

  if ($user && $email && $pass)
  { 
    if (valid ($email))
    {  

      $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = '".$user."'");
      if (mysql_num_rows ($result) == 0)
      { 
         $result = mysql_query ("INSERT INTO users (name, password, email, mod, showemail) VALUES ('.$user.', PASSWORD('.$pass.'), '.$email.', '0', '1')");
         if ($result)
         {  

         $logged_in_user = $user;
         session_register ("logged_in_user");
         $result = mysql_query ("SELECT userID FROM users WHERE name = '".$user."'");
         if (!$result)
         {
           fail ("select query failed on register page", true);
         }
         $record = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
         $logged_userID = $record["userID"];
         session_register("logged_userID");
         header("Registration", "Registration Complete");
         echo "Your details have been added to the database, ".$logged_in_user.".<BR><BR> <A HREF='main.php'>Click here to proceed to the Forum.</A><BR><BR> <A HREF='enter.php'>Click here to log out.</A>";
         exit;
        }
      else
      {
        fail("database query failed, registration page", true);
      }
    }
    else
    {
      header("Registration", "Invalid registration");
      echo "Sorry, that username has been taken. Please try another.<BR>";
    }
   }
   else
   {
     header("Registration", "Invalid registration");
     echo "Please submit a valid email address.";
   }
  }


// if less than all three fields have been filled up ..
else if ($user || $pass || $email)
{
header("Registration", "Invalid registration");
echo "Please fill in all fields.";
}
else
{
  header("Registration", "Invalid registration");
  echo "Please submit two identical passwords.";
}
}
else 
{

header("Registration", "Registration");

}