Login help needed

Staggy11

I have a login script. It works apart from one thing: It says that ALL user/pass combos are wrong, even when they are right. No error messages are displayed, and I have no idea what is going wrong.

Here is a link to the source code (its quite long, so I decided against posting it directly) :
http//:staggy11.byethost3.com/example.txt

Can anyone tell me anything I may have done wrong? Or anything I may have mistyped?

Thanks in advance.

Houdini

after you closed out of PHP then went right back after inserting a line break with html you then reopened PHP and checked for $SESSION variables right here

} //end if submit is pressed
?>
<br>
<?
if($_SESSION['logged_in'] != 1)

so now you need to start the session like

?>
<br>
<?
session_start();
if($_SESSION['logged_in'] != 1)

Also you should try to make a habit of not using short tags and although they might work currently on the server you are on if they were to upgrade the PHP then most likely short tags will be turned off in the new version since that is the default, then you will have to use <?php everywhere you have <? or you old scripts will not work anymore.

Staggy11

Thanks for the advice about short tags; I'll go through all my scripts and change them shortly.

However, the bit that you pointed out, the bit lacking 'session_start()', wasn't the bit I'm refferring to. When you try and log in, it dies with the message "Login Failure: An error occured, please verify your username and password are correct."

This comes from the bit

$get_user = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `pet_game` WHERE 'username' = '$name' AND 'password' = '$pass'"); 

$q = mysql_num_rows($get_user); 
   if(!$q) 
        {echo("Login Failure: An error occured, please verify your username and password are correct.");} 
   else 
         {