I have got an HTML page which i have two username and password input boxes as part of a form. I want these to be submitted to a php form that will check the user name against an SQL database table i have created.

how do i gather the information from the input boxes? or even an alternate way to create a user login section????

the database name is: login
the table name is: userlogin
it has two fields, USERNAME and PASSWORD
username is the key field
thanks for any help
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I STRONGLY suggest you start by reading some PHP tutorials. It's not fair to expect someone to take the time to answer such a simple question when there's an extraordinary amount of information out there that answers exactly this question.

  http://www.php.net/tutorial
  http://www.google.com/search?q=php+tutorial


Besides, what database are you using?

  MySQL? http://www.php.net/mysql
  Postgres? http://www.php.net/pgsql
  SQL Server? http://www.php.net/mssql
  Oracle? http://www.php.net/oracle
  Sybase? http://www.php.net/sybase
  etc...


The problem of authenticating users has also been discussed at length in recent posts. Once you get the gist of getting and manipulating user input via HTML forms, you should read the recent authentication threads already posted. There's a lot of good information there... too much to repeat so soon after it was posted.



Take care,

Nik
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