I have a new code... now what?

[Twey]

add an empty title attribute

Does a lack of title attribute result in a tooltip?

[mwinter]

Does a lack of title attribute result in a tooltip?

In IE, yes. It will display the content of an alt attribute if there is one, but no title attribute. However, if a title attribute is present (even if empty), it will use that in preference.

Mike

[BLiZZaRD]

Guess who, oh great gods of php (lol)


I have said before that the code I got in the beginning, and now added the submit= line, works great. the two pass. take the viewer to the different pages, just like I wanted...

BUT... now I found another problem. I have made a THIRD page, call it an error page, how can I tweak this code to default to this third page when ANYTHING other than the 2 u/n and p/w specified is input?

does that make sense?

...

[Twey]

Take this:

if(($_POST['user'] == "john") && ($_POST['pass'] == "travolta")) header("Location: johntravolta.php");
else if(($_POST['user'] == "john") && ($_POST['pass'] == "cusak")) header("Location: johncusak.php");

and add this:

else header("Location: wrong.php");

so you get this:

if(($_POST['user'] == "john") && ($_POST['pass'] == "travolta")) header("Location: johntravolta.php");
else if(($_POST['user'] == "john") && ($_POST['pass'] == "cusak")) header("Location: johncusak.php");
else header("Location: wrong.php");

[BLiZZaRD]

Weird, I tried that and it didn't work, I was going to be so proud of myself for doing it on my own finally, but NOOOOOOO... lmao


I must have left out a { or something, lol.

But I added the string and it works..

Thanks once again!

[mwinter]

else header("Location: wrong.php");

It should be noted that the value of the Location header must be an absolute URI. There's no notion of a base URI when dealing with redirection. Some browsers might assume the request URI, but they don't have to; they're being extremely kind.

Mike

[Twey]

Oh right.
It works for every browser I've ever tried it in. I'll bear that in mind.

[mwinter]

Oh right.
It works for every browser I've ever tried it in. I'll bear that in mind.

Whatever your opinion is when it comes to standards and HTML, conformance should never be sacrificed when it comes to something as core as the underlying transport protocol. Displaying something incorrectly is one thing. Failing to do anything due to a badly-formed request is something else.

The PHP documentation provides an example for creating absolute URLs in its information regarding the header function.

As an aside, it's interesting to note that it's not just user agents that may misbehave when a relative URI is used. Someone mentions in the comments that IIS may attempt to follow such a redirect, rather than getting the user agent to do so.

Mike

[Twey]

I always try to follow the standards. Hence my bearing it in mind. I was saying that it having worked in every browser I had tried it with was the reason why I'd never noticed this before.

[BLiZZaRD]

HEY, yet another question...

How hard would it be to take this code and have it come in a pop up box instead of being a page in itself?

Meaning, right now I have my players clicking a link that takes them to the page where this code is and THEN entering the username and password infor and clicking submit. What would be awesome is if I could have them click the link and a password box appears and when they enter the correct u/n p/w combo they are taken to the next page?

It would cut out a step and save me some bandwidth. It would also be more asthetically pleasing.

Eventually I would also like to design this password box to fit my site, i.e. colors fonts titles, etc.

I am on page 6 of the tutorial too! and learning TONS!

Thanks for the help!