Part of my site is PHP based the other part is HTML. I want to certain parts
of the site to only be available to users with valid passwords.
The current solution uses a .htaccess file, where the user has to enter
valid username and password to gain access. This is fine but pretty basic,
the user
N> $code = mysql_query("SELECT password FROM newsauthors WHERE $name = author");
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You're not extracting a result here, just executing the query
(assuming you have succesfully created the connection to the db at
some other point in your code).
Look up mysql_result() (and others in the family
I am trying to get a content management system up and running on my site. I want to
have the thing password protected, and this was how I was going about it, passing on
name and password variables in the urls of the management system. However, this doesnt
work, it just says your password in cor