At 9:46 AM -0800 1/15/09, Chris Carter wrote:
Chris:
That's not the way I would do it. After establishing a connection
with the database, I would use the query:
$query "SELECT email FROM owners WHERE email = '$emailAddress' ":
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
if(mysql_affected_rows())
{
// then report a duplicate email/record.
}
else
{
// else insert a new record in the dB.
}
HTH's
tedd
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Hi,
I know this is very basic question, this is so because I am a basic
programmer struggling to make things work.
Where in this code should I be trying to check if the user already exists
and throw an error saying "The user already exists ding ding ding". The
check has to be done with the emailAddress:
<?
// database information
$host = 'xxx';
$user = 'xxx';
$password = 'xxx';
$dbName = 'xxx';
if ($_POST['submit']) {
// connect and select the database
$conn = mysql_connect($host, $user, $password) or
die(mysql_error());
$db = mysql_select_db($dbName, $conn) or die(mysql_error());
// insert new entry in the database if entry submitted
$emailAddress = $_POST['emailAddress'];
$confEmail = $_POST['confEmail'];
$password = $_POST['password'];
$confPassword = $_POST['confPassword'];
$body = "Some email text";
// insert new entry into database
$sql = "insert into `owners` (emailAddress, confEmail, password,
confPassword) VALUES ('$emailAddress', '$confEmail', '$password',
'$confPassword')";
if(mysql_query($sql))
{
mail($emailAddress, "Thank you for
registering!", $body, "From:
someone@xxxxxxxxxxx");
header("Location: thankYou.php");
}
else
{
die("Error! Could not insert values".mysql_error());
}
}
?>
Thanks in advance,
Chris
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