Hello, I'm building a database using SQL and PHP and I've started on the user interface first rather than the database queries and everything - a little backwards perhaps. I have a login button that disappears for some reason when I add in a function for my search button. Here's the code:

start.php

<?php
	echo "
	<html><head><link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"http://localhost/Catalogue/html/css/test2.css\"><script src=\"http://localhost/Catalogue/javascripts/login.js\" language=\"JavaScript\"></script></head><body><div id=\"banner\"><span class=\"menuButton\">";

	
	ini_set('session.cache_limiter','private');
	session_start();

	if(isset( $_SESSION['username'])){
		$username = $_SESSION['username'];
		if($username !=  "default"){
			echo "<input type='button' name='logout' value='logout' onclick= \"window.location='http://localhost/Catalogue/php/logout.php';\">";;
		}
	}
	else{
		$_SESSION['username']="default";
		$_SESSION['password']="password";
		$_SESSION['hostname']="localhost";
		$_SESSION['db']="bookcatalogue";
		@mysql_connect($_SESSION['hostname'],$_SESSION['username'],$_SESSION['password']) or die("Access to db server denied");
		@mysql_select_db($_SESSION['db']) or die("Access to library denied");
		echo "<input type='button' name='Login' value='login' onclick= \"javascript:toggleLayer('loginBox');\">";
	}
	echo "</span></div>";
	include 'C:\wamp\www\Catalogue\html\test2.html';
	
?>

the html for test2.html is started in start.php because I needed the login button to change based on the user.

test2.html

<div id="searchbackground"><img src="http://localhost/Catalogue/images/startHere.png"/></div>
<div id="center">
<div id="content"> 
<div id="searchlogo"></div>
<h1>book<br>catalogue</h1>
<form name="search" method="POST" action ="\Catalogue\php\search.php">
<input class="search" type = "text" name = "searchbar" size= "30">
<input class="button" type="image" src="http://localhost/Catalogue/images/searchbutton.png" HEIGHT="49" WIDTH="52" BORDER="0" ALT="Search">
</form>
<div id="loginBox" >
<form name="login" method="POST" action = "\Catalogue\php\login.php">
	
		
			Username:
			<input class="login" type ="text" name="username">
			<br>
			<br>
			Password:
			<input class="login" type="password" name="password">
			<br>
			<br>
			
			<input class="sumbitButton" type="submit" value="submit" name="submitbutton">
		
	
	</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div id="footer">

</div>

</body>
</head>

and here's the css - which is a bit of a cluster atm, I need to organize things much better, at the moment its sort of a 'make things work' experimentation.

body {
  background:#524d4d;
  padding: 0px;
  margin: 0px;
  height: 100%;
  }
  
  body h1{
font-weight:normal;
color: #000000;
position: absolute;
font-size: 40px;
font-family: "Sans", sans-serif;
margin-left:60px;
margin-top:90px;
}
  
  #banner {
  background: url("http://localhost/Catalogue/images/bg.png");
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
  height: 50px;
  margin-bottom: -50px;
 -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 -1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.3), 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
	-moz-box-shadow: inset 0 -1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.3), 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
	-khtml-box-shadow: inset 0 -1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.3), 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
	box-shadow: inset 0 -1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.3), 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.1);

  }
  
  #banner .menuButton {
  float: right;
  }
  
  #banner .menuButton input{
  color: #ffffff;
font-size: 40px;
font-family: "Sans", sans-serif;
background-color: transparent;
border: none;
  }
  
  #center {
min-height: 100% ;
}

#content{
overflow: auto;
padding-bottom: 50px;
padding-top: 50px;
}

#searchlogo
{
position: absolute;
background-image: url("http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/siver_fire/SearchLogo.png");
height:139px;
width:388px;
margin-top: 170px;
margin-left: 50px;
}

#searchbackground{
position: absolute;
background-image: url("http://localhost/Catalogue/images/startHere.png");
height: 50px;
width: 200px;
margin-top: 370px;
margin-left: 300px;
}
#controllogo
{
position: absolute;
background-image: url("http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/siver_fire/ControlPanel-1.png");
height:191px;
width:740px;
}

input.search { 
position: absolute;
height: 36px;
width: 500px; 
border: 3px solid #000000; 
margin-top: 255px;
margin-left: 190px;
font-size: 25px;
font-family: "Sans", sans-serif;
}

input.button {
position: absolute; 
margin-top: 247px;
margin-left: 690px;
}

#loginBox{
display: none;
padding-top: 50px;
padding-right: 125px;
float: right;
font-size: 20px;
font-family: "Sans", sans-serif;
}

#loginBox .menuButton input{
  color: #ffffff;
font-size: 40px;
font-family: "Sans", sans-serif;
background-color: transparent;
border: none;
  }

input.login{
position: absolute;
height: 36px;
width: 200px; 
border: 3px solid #000000; 
font-size: 25px;
font-family: "Sans", sans-serif;
}

.controlpanel{
position: absolute;
margin-top: 200px;
}

.controlpanel table{
background-color: transparent;
color: #ffffff;
font-size: 40px;
font-family: "Sans", sans-serif;
text-shadow: 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em black;
}

.controlpanel button{
background-color: #524d4d;
border: none;
}
  
   #footer{
  background: url("http://localhost/Catalogue/images/bg.png");
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
  height: 50px;
  margin-top: -50px;
  clear: both;
-moz-box-shadow: inset 0 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.3), 0 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.3), 0 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
box-shadow:inset 0 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.3), 0 0 1px 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.1);
  }

so basically, after all that :D my problem is with this section

<form name="search" method="POST" action ="\Catalogue\php\search.php">
<input class="search" type = "text" name = "searchbar" size= "30">
<input class="button" type="image" src="http://localhost/Catalogue/images/searchbutton.png" HEIGHT="49" WIDTH="52" BORDER="0" ALT="Search">
</form>

As long as that action part is there the login button disappears and in order to get it back I have to remove the action and close and reopen the page.

not quite sure ur quest and
y this:

#loginBox{
display: none;

this means hiding ur loginBox no?

okay after a little experimentation it's not the addition of the search.php action that's causing the button to disappear but rather refreshing the page... here's a screencap of the problem, this is my page before refreshing:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/siver_fire/currentCap.png

and after refresh:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/siver_fire/LoginGone.png

I took a look at my source code and it looks like, upon refresh the php that displays the login/logout button isn't going through.

<html><head><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://localhost/Catalogue/html/css/test2.css"><script src="http://localhost/Catalogue/javascripts/login.js" language="JavaScript"></script></head><body><div id="banner"><span class="menuButton"></span></div>

as you can see there's nothing in the menuButton span class.

um... on looking at it further I think I might see the problem, let me know if this makes sense. Upon refresh it checks to see if the session is set, if it is and the username is not default it sets the button to logout, but it does not set it to login at all.

Yeah that was it XD, thanks for the help anyway.

lol~ i did ntg~

happy coding~

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