first of all.. for those of you who read this and want to help me make a few cents, go to
http://www.motor-lot.com and click on an add or two at the bottom.

For those of you who can help out with my problem, here it is. I have a login page with the link on the top right. USING IE, try logging in after you register, or use my test one... username test, password test. I cant seem to get it to login successfully useing Internet Explorer, but it does for netscape and mozilla. I have been trying to track down the problem, but cant seem to find it. It does work fine when I am testing the site with IE from Dreamweaver, just not on the production site.

Anyone have any clue??

10/5/2005 11:01:59 AM

Nice way to work in your spam into an otherwise legit post.

10/5/2005 11:46:36 AM

yeah, well its a legit question. All the money goes to katrina today anyhow (see post in Lounge)

10/5/2005 12:17:09 PM

anyone willing to look at it for me? I can furnish the code if needed.

10/5/2005 2:25:50 PM

I can confirm that it's happening(mozilla works, ie doesn't)

echo all your $_POST's and make sure the form is submitting correctly.

10/5/2005 3:29:32 PM

can you explain better how that will show me what is being submitted.

To help you understand the site better, the login page with the error message is a totally different page than the first login screen. When login fails, users are sent to the one with the error message. Also, the page home.php under the folder Individuals is the page that users are sent to once they log in. All the authentication is done via session variables. At the login page, the session variables are set if they match a record in the database, and then the home.php checks to make sure the session variables for user and access type are set and are correct, otherwise it redirects back to the login page.

I just dont understand how IE and Mozilla would differ so much in something like this, but I guess they do.

10/5/2005 8:59:36 PM

anyone??

10/6/2005 11:55:16 PM

looks like it is more of a IE SUX bug.... session cookies turned off by default in IE, but dreamweaver uses session variables when it creates its authentication pages.


Tools > Internet Options > Privacy > Advanced > check the box to allow session cookies

I would appreciate it if a few of you would try this for me to make sure thats the only problem

10/7/2005 11:52:46 AM

it worked for me when i changed the privacy settings. but i don't think you're going to have a very successful site if you're gonna demand people change their privacy settings just for you.

10/7/2005 1:02:53 PM

yeah ... thats my assumption too. So for now, I am uploading those instructions to the login error page, but will be working on using cookies instead of session variables in the future.

10/7/2005 3:02:29 PM