trim password

[Anon]

Another quick question.

I have a form to enter user and password. The validation processes are performed correctly in the sense of checking the user and password combination correctly.

I now have a problem with leading and trailing spaces in the password field.

before i perform the password check in the mysql database, i run the trim($user) and trim($password) functions, but they don't appear to be working. is there a special way i need to do this since it's a password field in the form?

so if user=joe and password=smith

you can enter user=joe and password= smith

and it still works...

thanks in advance

[kparker]

Without seeing your actual code, one likely possibility is that you're forgetting that PHP parameters by default are passed by value, so the statement

trim($password);

only trims the temporary copy that is the function's parameter. You need to say it like this:

$password = trim($password);

[Anon]

i'm using

//trim all the fields
$user=trim($user);
$password=trim($password);

so i don't think that is the problem

[[deleted]]

I take it you are not doing

if ($user='joe' and $password='smith')

but

if ($user=='joe' and $password=='smith')

and as allways, print, print and print some more.

echo 'Data from form:--'.$form_password."--\n";
$form_password=trim($form_password);
echo 'Trimmed data from form:--'.$form_password."--\n";
echo 'Data ro compare with:--'.$password."--\n";

and so on.
The minus signs let you see spaces etc more easily.