Hey everyone,
I am fairly new to the programming world, but I am a quick learner. I am trying to make my "membership area" register.php work properly, but there seems to be a parsing error as follows here: "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in C:\Program Files (x86)\EasyPHP-5.3.8.1\www\register.php on line 54" ...I understand that this might be a bit annoying to most of the people who probably answer this sort of thing a lot, but I would greatly apreciate the help, since again, I am fairly new to the programming world. The register.php file reads as follows"
<?php
include 'db.php';
// Define post fields into simple variables
$first_name = $_POST['first_name'];
$last_name = $_POST['last_name'];
$email_address = $_POST['email_address'];
$username = $_POST['username'];
$info = $_POST['info'];
/* Let's strip some slashes in case the user entered
any escaped characters. */
$first_name = stripslashes($first_name);
$last_name = stripslashes($last_name);
$email_address = stripslashes($email_address);
$username = stripslashes($username);
$info = stripslashes($info);
/* Do some error checking on the form posted fields */
if((!$first_name) || (!$last_name) || (!$email_address) || (!$username)){
print "You did not submit the following required information! <br />";
if(!$first_name){
echo "First Name is a required field. Please enter it below.<br />";
}
if(!$last_name){
echo "Last Name is a required field. Please enter it below.<br />";
}
if(!$email_address){
echo "Email Address is a required field. Please enter it below.<br />";
}
if(!$username){
echo "Desired Username is a required field. Please enter it below.<br />";
}
include 'Register.html'; // Show the form again!
/* End the error checking and if everything is ok, we'll move on to
creating the user account */
exit(); // if the error checking has failed, we'll exit the script!
}
/* Let's do some checking and ensure that the user's email address or username
does not exist in the database */
$sql_email_check = mysql_query("SELECT email_address FROM users WHERE email_address='$email_address'");
$sql_username_check = mysql_query("SELECT username FROM users WHERE username='$username'");
if (mysql_num_rows($sql_email_check==true)
$email_check = mysql_num_rows($sql_email_check);
$username_check = mysql_num_rows($sql_username_check);
if(($email_check ==true) || ($username_check ==true){
echo "Please fix the following errors: <br />";
if($email_check > 0){
echo "<strong>Your email address has already been used by another member in our database. Please submit a different Email address!<br />";
unset($email_address);
}
if($username_check > 0){
echo "The username you have selected has already been used by another member in our database. Please choose a different Username!<br />";
unset($username);
}
include 'Register.html'; // Show the form again!
exit(); // exit the script so that we do not create this account!
}
/* Everything has passed both error checks that we have done.
It's time to create the account! */
/* Random Password generator.
http://www.phpfreaks.com/quickcode/Random_Password_Generator/56.php
We'll generate a random password for the
user and encrypt it, email it and then enter it into the db.
*/
function makeRandomPassword() {
$salt = "abchefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz0123456789";
srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$i = 0;
while ($i <= 7) {
$num = rand() % 33;
$tmp = substr($salt, $num, 1);
$pass = $pass . $tmp;
$i++;
}
return $pass;
}
$random_password = makeRandomPassword();
$db_password = md5($random_password);
// Enter info into the Database.
$info2 = htmlspecialchars($info);
$sql = mysql_query("INSERT INTO users (first_name, last_name, email_address, username, password, info, signup_date)
VALUES('$first_name', '$last_name', '$email_address', '$username', '$db_password', '$info2', now())") or die (mysql_error());
if(!$sql){
echo 'There has been an error creating your account. Please contact the webmaster.';
} else {
$userid = mysql_insert_id();
// Let's mail the user!
$subject = "Your Membership at Ready Or Not! Tahirih's Website!";
$message = "Dear $first_name $last_name,
Thank you for registering at my website, http://www.mydomain.com!
You are two steps away from logging in and interacting wiht my site.
To activate your membership, please click here: http://www.mydomain.com/activate.php?id=$userid&code=$db_password
Once you activate your memebership, you will be able to login with the following information:
Username: $username
Password: $random_password
Thanks!
Tahirih
This is an automated response, please do not reply!";
mail($email_address, $subject, $message, "From: Tahirih Pellegrino<tahirih@tpelle.com>\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
echo 'Your membership information has been mailed to your email address! Please check your emain and follow the instructions!';
}
?>