trouble with login/redirect script

impressionist

Hi,

I am having trouble getting a simple login/redirect script (without the use of a database) to work. When I click on the 'go' button, I get this error:

"Warning: fopen("www.rotaryairlock.com/index.html", "r") - No such file or directory in /data/httpd/vhosts/somewhere.com/httpdocs/names.php on line 13
Couldn't open page"

I am just now getting my feet wet with PHP. Can you take a quick look and see if I wrote the code wrong or point me in the right direction to make it work correctly.

Thank you for your time,
impressionist

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">


<HTML>

<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>
<?                                                           

if (($_POST[$username] == someone) && ($POST_[$password] == something))    //USER 1 (set Password and Username here)

 {
    $fp = fopen( "http://www.somewhere.com/index.html/", "r" ) or die ("Couldn't open page") ;
      } else {                                
       echo "<br><br>";                                                                        
       echo "<p align=center>" ;                                                            
       echo "<b>Authentication Failed<br><br>Please hit your   
                     'Back' button and try again.</b>" ;
             echo "</p>" ;
       }
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

vaaaska

"Warning: fopen("www.rotaryairlock.com/index.html", "r") - No such file or directory in /data/httpd/vhosts/somewhere.com/httpdocs/names.php on line 13
Couldn't open page"

Don't use a url in fopen...it seems to be fussy. Use a path from your site root (/data/...) to get there and see if that helps.

justsomeone

if the file is local to your server, it would be much better to do

$fp = fopen( "index.html", "r" )

impressionist

I appreciate your responses. I will give your suggestions a try and let you know the outcome.

impressionist