Question

I’m creating a login for a website using PHP but when I try to login I always get the same error “You forgot to enter your password.” An error I included if the user forgets to enter the password, however I have been entering a password. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The PHP:

//check for a password and a match against the confirmed password:
if (empty($_POST['pass1']))
{
    if($_POST['pass1'] != $_POST['pass2'])
    {
        $errors[] = 'Your passwords did not match.';
    }
    else
    {
        $p = trim($_POST['pass1']);
    }
}
else
{
    $errors[] = 'Your forgot to enter your password.';
}

if (empty($errors)) //if everything is okay
{
//register the user in the database
require_once
('../mysqli_connect.php'); //connect to the DB

The HTML form:

     <p>Password: <input type="password" name="pass1" size="15" maxlength="20"/>*</p>

     <p>Confirm Password: <input type="password" name="pass2" size="15" maxlength="20"/>*</p>

Thank in advance!

Answer 1

Your code says to send the error message if the password is NOT empty (else case of empty). Either switch the then and else blocks around, or put a ! before empty.