Sending Info from IE Window to IE Window and MySQL prob!!

Hey... Im tyrign to make an MP3 player for the broadband part of my site, however, although i can make it play MP3s, i want to be able to get the MP3 Selection window to make the Actual Site window play te music, if you understand what i mean ? If not then i will try to simplyfy it (but that wasnt simple ;))....

1.Person Opens MP3 Window from site, 2 windows open.
2.Cliick the song they want to play, and click Play in the MP3 window.
3.All i need now is the MP3 window to change a variable in the main window, so the loop thats checking to see if the variable has changed, notices, and thus changes the song accordingly..

So all i really need is a way of chaging a variable from 1 window to another :)

The MySQL problem is weird, i don tknwo why it wont work.....

Code:

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if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
        $link = mysql_connect("localhost","username","password");
                if(!$link) die ("couldnt connect to $link");

        mysql_select_db("abunting", $link);

    $query = "SELECT 1 FROM site_members WHERE Alias='$alias' AND password='$password'";

    $result = mysql_query($query, $link) or die(mysql_error());

    if($result == 1) {
            print " ".mysql_result($result, 0)." the username and password you entered was correct";
    } else {
    print " ".mysql_result($result, 0)." the login you entered or the password you entered is incorrect";
    }
}

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surely result becomes 1 if the login and password are correct, but this doesnt seem to work!

Thanks

Quote:

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Originally posted by JafferAB
Hey... Im tyrign to make an MP3 player for the broadband part of my site, however, although i can make it play MP3s, i want to be able to get the MP3 Selection window to make the Actual Site window play te music, if you understand what i mean ? If not then i will try to simplyfy it (but that wasnt simple ;))....

1.Person Opens MP3 Window from site, 2 windows open.
2.Cliick the song they want to play, and click Play in the MP3 window.
3.All i need now is the MP3 window to change a variable in the main window, so the loop thats checking to see if the variable has changed, notices, and thus changes the song accordingly..

So all i really need is a way of chaging a variable from 1 window to another :)

The MySQL problem is weird, i don tknwo why it wont work.....

Code:

---

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
        $link = mysql_connect("localhost","username","password");
                if(!$link) die ("couldnt connect to $link");

        mysql_select_db("abunting", $link);

    $query = "SELECT 1 FROM site_members WHERE Alias='$alias' AND password='$password'";

    $result = mysql_query($query, $link) or die(mysql_error());

    if($result == 1) {
            print " ".mysql_result($result, 0)." the username and password you entered was correct";
    } else {
    print " ".mysql_result($result, 0)." the login you entered or the password you entered is incorrect";
    }
}

---

surely result becomes 1 if the login and password are correct, but this doesnt seem to work!

Thanks

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your kidding right?

$query = "SELECT 1 FROM site_members WHERE Alias='$alias' AND password='$password'";

what is the RED? and those variables will be blank if you are running from a post from a form. use $_POST['alias']

it only selects one! and thanks for the variables thing, was that only implemented in PHP 4 ?

you can't do it that way. select 1 form table is not correct.

you need to select it all or one column


select column from table

and teh globals thing was implimented in version 4.2