RE: Making a Password Confirmation in PHP

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On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 20:37 +0200, David Česal wrote:

> Yes, it is.
> 
> D
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 8:32 PM
> To: Floyd Resler
> Cc: PHP
> Subject: Re:  Making a Password Confirmation in PHP
> 
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 14:29 -0400, Floyd Resler wrote:
> 
> > On Jun 24, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Michael Calkins wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > This is very straight forward, if password a and b are not equal to each
> other, how can I let the user know that with out losing all of the entered
> information on the registration form?
> > > I was trying this: 
> > > ---$p1 = "<input type=\"password\" name=\"usr_p1\" />";
> > > $p2 = "<input type=\"password\" name=\"usr_p2\" />"; // if they 
> > > didn't match return
> > > $p1 = "<input type=\"password\" name=\"usr_p1\"  value=\"" . $p1 . 
> > > "\"/>";--- I was trying to change the value of the variable which shows
> the input field to have the password already in it.
> > > and either one would just be echo'd depending on the result.
> > > Any ideas please?
> > > 
> > > From,Michael Calkinsmichaelcalkins@xxxxxxxx
> > > 
> > > 
> > If you aren't opposed to using JavaScript, I'd do it there.  If you don't
> want to use JavaScript then you can load the form data from the $_POST (or
> $_GET) array that was passed back to your script.
> > 
> > Take care,
> > Floyd
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> Is Javascript allowed to read the value of password boxes? I was of the
> understanding that it couldn't, so checking if a password field matches
> another is pretty moot.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> 
> 
> 


Yes, so it does. That seems like a bit of a flaw in Javascript on
security grounds.

Anyway, you still need to perform the same check on the server:

      * Javascript may be turned off
      * Not every browser supports Javascript
      * Someone may make a post request without using the form


Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk



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