Re: [PHP] Log-in script help

2005-01-25 Thread AceZero2790
These ideas are great and all, but I'm a real PHP newb so I have some questions. It was that I should "look for the user in the database that stores the access info" Could I just use an array for that? Or does it have to be MySQL or something. $_Session['user_id']= (who) - Does that just add t

[PHP] Log-in script help

2005-01-25 Thread AceZero2790
Hey, I need a particular type log in script. I'm not sure how to do it or where I could find a tutorial that would help me, so I'll describe what I need and then maybe someone could tell me what kind of script I need (sessions or whatever) and where I could get the script/learn how to mak

Re: [PHP] password-protecting with PHP, help plz

2004-09-21 Thread AceZero2790
Thanks for the input, but unfortunately I have no idea how to do that, though I do have a MySQL server for my site. I'm still trying to learn basic PHP, I haven't moved on to PHP and MySQL connections and stuff yet. -Andrew

Re: [PHP] password-protecting with PHP, help plz

2004-09-19 Thread AceZero2790
Now moving on to using password protecting with more than one factor. I'm trying to figure out how to password protect with more than two factors: username and password. Here's the form: http://www.thesonicworld.net/pages/testing2.php";> Username: http://www.thesonicworld.net/pages/testing2.php

Re: [PHP] password-protecting with PHP, help plz

2004-09-19 Thread AceZero2790
You were right, my display_error function was turned off. I turned it on and get this: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_IS_EQUAL in c:\TSW\pages\testing2.php on line 3 So it isn't working. How do I get to let me make comparisons between the post data and something else? I figure if I ca

Re: [PHP] password-protecting with PHP, help plz

2004-09-19 Thread AceZero2790
I appreciate the help, but unfortunately it still doesn't work. I changed testing2.php, the action page to do this: I still get a blank page. What's more I turned on Display Errors and restarted the server, but still got no error message. I don't know what the problem is, maybe there is somet

[PHP] password-protecting with PHP, help plz

2004-09-19 Thread AceZero2790
Hello, I'm trying to password protect a page with PHP, using forms and $_POST data and all that stuff. However, I'm running into problems setting it so that if the POST is equal to a certain thing, it'll do this or that (using if...else commands) and also problems with just getting blank pages w

[PHP] [RESOLVED] mail functions problems

2004-09-01 Thread AceZero2790
Problem resolved. I set my SMTP server in php.ini to my ISP's SMTP server, smtp.comcast.net, and now everything works. Thanks everyone who helped me with this even though it is sort of off-topic. -Andrew

[PHP] Re: Mail Functions help

2004-09-01 Thread AceZero2790
I did some research and found out that my ISP's SMTP server is smtp.comcast.net. If I configure my mail functions to connect to this should my script be able to send e-mails? Research and Experimentation (yes, I did some!): I tried connecting to it using this telnet command: telnet smtp.comca

Fwd: [PHP] mail functions help

2004-09-01 Thread AceZero2790
--- Begin Message --- Are you referring to this post: you just want to see if mail() works try it. if(mail(...)) echo 'yay!'; else echo 'boo!'; ?> Or this post? Your SMTP server is the thing that actually transmits the email. On a Windows XP box like you're using, set the SMTP server to be t

Re: [PHP] mail functions help

2004-09-01 Thread AceZero2790
I tried your command: telnet localhost 25 to see if my SMTP server was up. Obviously it is not, because this is the response I received. Connecting to localhost...could not open connection to host on port 25. No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. So how

[PHP] mail functions help

2004-08-31 Thread AceZero2790
I'm trying to use the eFiction fanction/story archiving script for my website (view the script here: http://www.thesonicworld.net/efiction/), but the registration process is giving me trouble. It's one of those where you fill in your email and username and they send you a default password. Wel

[PHP] enabling mail function/mail functions help

2004-08-31 Thread AceZero2790
I'm trying to use the eFiction fanction/story archiving script for my website (view the script here: http://www.thesonicworld.net/efiction/), but the registration process is giving me trouble. It's one of those where you fill in your email and username and they send you a default password. Well,

[PHP] mail functions help

2004-08-25 Thread AceZero2790
I'm trying to make sure that my mail functons are on for a script I need to work. I run an Apache 1.3.31, so I am my own webhost. Now I just need to know how to make sure my mailfunctions are on. Here is the mail functions part of php.ini pertaining to me (the windows part because I am on XP):

Fwd: [PHP] making sure sendmail function is on and running

2004-08-24 Thread AceZero2790
--- Begin Message --- Background: Server-Apache 1.3.31 OS-Windows XP PHP-5 Problem-I'm trying to run eFiction, a story/fanfiction archive script. On this, people self register, and they are supposed to get an e-mail with their password. However, I and one other attempted signing up, and neith

Re: [PHP] making sure sendmail function is on and running

2004-08-24 Thread AceZero2790
If you have Windows, PHP can only use an extrenal smtp server, so you have to open that server up to connections from your web server to your mail server. That could be on the same physical machine as your web server, in which case the mail server will have to be configured to accept connecti

[PHP] making sure sendmail function is on and running

2004-08-24 Thread AceZero2790
Background: Server-Apache 1.3.31 OS-Windows XP PHP-5 Problem-I'm trying to run eFiction, a story/fanfiction archive script. On this, people self register, and they are supposed to get an e-mail with their password. However, I and one other attempted signing up, and neither of us got our passwo