PHP forms

gideon220

I've got an asp page that is no longer working and I found where an employee had tried to code this same page in php, and since I really don't know much about either I'd rather try to fix the php one than get the asp one working. I know less about asp anyways.

There are actually an admin side and a customer side. One shows conferences available and the other is where you log in and add conferences or edit conferences.

So do I need to copy the code into here or do I save it as a text file. I'm sorry I haven't researched this more thoroughly this is kind of a time-sensitive issue so I'm trying to use any resources available. I'll be looking at the coding until I get an answer back and reading 🙂 Thanks for any help and I got thrown into this web development position along with system engineer, which I'm glad because I've wanted to learn php and mysql but it came with a host of problems that haven't been fixed Thanks again.

leatherback

Hi Gideon, and welcome to phpbuilder.

If you have problems, best is to isolate the location of the problem as best as you can. Describe it in a few lines of text, and possible post a few lines of code on the forum. Do not post complete scripts: Most of the time it is not needed, and it puts people off from reading your post.

When you post php code to the forum, make sure you place a

 and [ /php] around the code: This will create syntax highlighting, which makes it easier for us to read the code. (Remove the space in the selcond tag).

Happy coding!

gideon220

My first obstacle is authenticating to the admin piece. I got the email link to work.
there are already a few parts to the admin folder or peice there is login.php, add.php, edit.php, main.php, and view.php. Here is the code from login.php
config.inc.php just says how to connect to the mysql database and which one
I don't understand how to get the authenticated=true? I looked in process.php and index.php and didn't see any authentication code but I may be overlooking. Thanks for any help.

<?php
session_start();

require_once('common/config.inc.php');
require_once('common/functions.inc.php');


if (($_POST['username'] == "###") AND ($_POST['password'] == "####")) {
	$_SESSION['authenticated'] = true;
    header('refresh: 0; url=main.php');
} else {
	header('refresh: 0; url=index.php');
}
?>

leatherback

the code you are showing is just veryfying posted username and passwords against fixed values (The ### and #### you probably put in there). If they match, then the $_SESSION array will have a key 'authenticated' with value 'true'.

So it is not TESTING, it is setting the value.

In other pages you will probably find: if($_SESSION['authenticated']) {//do something}

gideon220

it's checking this authentication through MySQL? I just commented out the else statement that redirect back to the index.php and I got this

PHP Notice: Undefined index: username in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\netnet\etihn\admin\login.php on line 8

Seems to be saying that it's not authenticated? Is that correct? Or that username isn't created.

I'm checking sql. You would think that it would want you to authenticate for the admin piece but maybe not. But if not why would there be any authentication? Shouldn't I be getting a pop up box or something to authenticate? Maybe I need to build one for when you click on login.php Thanks for your help leatherback

gideon220

$_SESSION['authenticated'] = true;

is authenticated actually supposed to represent a php file with user name and passwords?

Kudose

No, authenticated is the name of the array index in the $_SESSION super-global array.

gideon220

I've got it working thanks for everyone's help. Couldn't have done it without yall