Question

I am learning how to use “setcookie”, however, I couldn’t get following line to work,
I have pasted all my codes here, if someone could give me a hand please?
Have no idea the reason.
Many thanks.

  else{ die ("hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha"); }

HTML code

<form method="POST" action="">
<div class="error"><?php echo $error;?></div>
<p></p>
<label>Username: </label><br>
<input type="text" name="username"><br>
<label>Password: </label><br>
<input type="password" name="password"><br>
<input type="checkbox" name="rememberme"> Remember me<br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Login">

PHP CODE

<?
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
    //get data
    $username = $_POST['username'];
    $password = $_POST['password'];
    $rememberme = isset($_POST['rememberme']);
    echo $rememberme;


    if($username&&$password){
    $login = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM form WHERE username='$username'");

    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($login))
    {
        $db_password = $row['password'];
        if (md5($password)== $db_password)
        {
            $logstatus = TRUE;
            }
        else{
            $logstatus = FALSE; 
            }
        if ($logstatus == TRUE)
        {
            if ($rememberme == "1")
                setcookie("username", $username, time()+600);
            else if ($rememberme == "")
                $_SESSION['username'] = $username;


        echo " I am here";
        }

        else{
           die ("hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha"); //unable to get here
        }
    }

}

    else{
    echo "enter username / password";
    }
}
?>

Answer 1

Try this code, I haven’t tested it but is should works 🙂

session_start();//dont forget this :P
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
    //get data
    $username = $_POST['username'];
    $password = $_POST['password'];
    $rememberme = isset($_POST['rememberme']);
    echo $rememberme;    
if($username&&$password){
    $login = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM form WHERE username='$username' AND password='".md5($password)."'");


        if (mysql_num_rows($login))//if this returns 1 you are logged in
        {
            if ($rememberme == "1")
                setcookie("username", $username, time()+600);
            else
                $_SESSION['username'] = $username;


                echo " I am here";              

        }else{
           die ("Incorrect Username/Password"); //unable to get here
        }
    }

}

    else{
    echo "enter username / password";
    }
}