Need Simple Password/Redirect Help

BroCaptRace

I have a very simple HTML form with a single password field and submit button. The action calls checkPassword.php which is comprised of the following code:

<?php
if ($_POST[login] == "password"){ 
header("Location: [url]http://www.mysite.com/protectedPage.htm[/url]");
exit;  

} else { header("Location: [url]http://www.mysite.com[/url]");
exit;
}
?>

When I submit the form using "password," I'm getting redirected back to www.mysite.com, instead of going to the (marginally) protected page.

How can I fix this? Any help is greatly appreciated.

devinemke

a simple example:

<?php
if (!isset($_POST['submit']))
{
	echo '
	<form action="" method="POST">
	password: <input type="password" name="password">
	<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
	</form>
	';
}
else
{
	if ($_POST['password'] == 'password') {$url = 'http://www.mysite.com/protectedPage.htm';}
	else {$url = 'http://www.mysite.com';}

header('location: ' . $url);
exit();
}
?>

BroCaptRace

I got it to work, thanks! (Turns out it was a problem with my destination! :o)

BTW, what does echoing the form's HTML in the first "if" statement do? I'm kind of confused by that . . .

devinemke

Originally posted by BroCaptRace
BTW, what does echoing the form's HTML in the first "if" statement do? I'm kind of confused by that . . .

[man]echo[/man] outputs to the browser.