form validation errors

lee2010 · January 29, 2011

hi all, i have a register page with some basic validation but its throwing out this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in C:\xampp\htdocs\process_r.php on line 84

heres my code:

register.php

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<!--
Author: Reality Software
Website: http://www.realitysoftware.ca
Note: This is a free template released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, 
which means you can use it in any way you want provided you keep the link to the author intact.
-->
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("#username_input").keyup(function(){
    txt=$("#username_input").val();
    $.post("check.php",{username:txt},function(result){
      $("#feedback").html(result);
    });
  });
});

</script>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title></title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<style type="text/css">
.auto-style2 {
font-size: 25px;
}
.auto-style3 {
font-size: small;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div id="container">
<!-- header -->
    <div id="header">
    	<div id="logo"><a href="#"><span class="orange">SouthWest</span> LAN's</a></div>
        <div id="menu">
        	<ul>
            <li><a href="index.php">Home</a></li>
            <li><a href="events.php">Events</a></li>
            <li><a href="account.php">My Account</a></li>
            <li><a href="forum.php">Forums</a></li>
            <li><a href="faq.php">FAQ</a></li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </div>
    <!--end header -->
    <!-- main -->
    <div id="main">
        <div id="content">
        <div id="head_image">
        	<div id="slogan"><strong><span class="auto-style2">Organising LAN Parties in the SouthWest</span></strong><br /></div>
            <div id="under_slogan_text"></div>
        </div>
        <div id="text">
          <h1>Registration:</h1>
           <br />
          
           <p class="auto-style3">Don't forget your login details as you will need them everytime you wish to login.</p>
	   
<form name="register" method="post" action="process_r.php">
<table border="0" width="225" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td width="219" bgcolor="#999999">
            <p align="center"><font color="white"><span style="font-size:12pt;">
		All fields are required</span></font></p>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="219">
            <table border="0" width="282" align="center">
                    <tr>
                        <td width="116"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Username:</span></td>
                        <td width="156"><input type="text" id="username_input" name="username" maxlength="100" value="<?php echo $username; ?>"></td>
                    </tr>
				<tr>
                        <td width="116"><span style="font-size:10pt;"></span></td>
                        <td width="116"><div id="feedback"></div></td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td width="116"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Email:</span></td>
                        <td width="156"><input type="text" name="email" maxlength="100" value="<?php echo $email; ?>"></td>
                    </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td width="116"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Password</span></td>
                    <td width="156"><input type="password" name="password"></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td width="116"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Confirm Password:</span></td>
                    <td width="156"><input type="password" name="c_password"></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td width="116"> </td>
                        <td width="156">
                            <p align="right"><input type="submit" name="register" value="Register"></p>
                        </td>
                </tr>
            </table>
        </td>
    </tr>
    
</table>
</form>

                       </div>
              </div>
       </div>
    </div>
    <!-- end main -->
    <!-- footer -->
    <div id="footer">
    <div id="left_footer"><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img
        src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10"
        alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional" height="31" width="88" /></a><br />© Copyright 2008 Clicker design
    
  

    </div>
    <div id="right_footer">

<!-- Please do not change or delete this link. Read the license! Thanks. :-) -->
Design by <a href="http://www.realitysoftware.ca" title="Website Design">Reality Software</a>

    </div>
    </div>
    <!-- end footer -->

</body>
</html>

process_r.php

<?PHP

//Database Information

$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbname = "lee";
$dbuser = "lee";
$dbpass = "leecopter";

//Connect to database

mysql_connect ( $dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass)or die("Could not connect: ".mysql_error());
mysql_select_db($dbname) or die(mysql_error());

//Clean data
$_POST = array_map('strip_tags', $_POST);
$_POST = array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', $_POST);
    
$username = $_POST['username'];
$email = $_POST['email'];    
$password = md5($_POST['password']);
$c_password = $_POST['c_password'];
$errorstring = "";


if(!$username){
	$errorstring = $errorstring."Username<br>";
	}
if(!$email){
	$errorstring = $errorstring."Email<br>";
	}
if(!$password){
	$errorstring = $errorstring."Password<br>";
	}
if(!$c_password){
	$errorstring = $errorstring."Confirm Password<br>";
	}


if ($errorstring!=""){
	echo "Please full out the following fields:<br>$errorstring";
	}

else{

//Check to see if the username already exists

$checkuser = mysql_query("SELECT username FROM users WHERE username='$username'");

$username_exist = mysql_num_rows($checkuser);

if($username_exist > 0){
    echo 'Im sorry but the username you specified has already been taken.  Please pick another one.';
    unset($username);
    include 'register.php';
    exit();
}

$query = "INSERT INTO users (username, email, password)
VALUES('$username', '$email', '$password')";
mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
mysql_close();
include 'thank-you.php'


// mail user their information

//$yoursite = ‘www.blahblah.com’;
//$webmaster = ‘yourname’;
//$youremail = ‘youremail’;
    
//$subject = "You have successfully registered at $yoursite...";
//$message = "Dear $name, you are now registered at our web site.  
  //  To login, simply go to our web page and enter in the following details in the login form:
   // Username: $username
   // Password: $password
    
  //  Please print this information out and store it for future reference.
    
   // Thanks,
  //  $webmaster";
    
//mail($email, $subject, $message, "From: $yoursite <$youremail>\nX-Mailer:PHP/" . phpversion());
}
?>

pretty sure the problem is within the process_r.php file

l4nc3r · January 29, 2011

Gotta read those error messages, man. It says it's on line 84 in process_r.php where there was an unexpected "}". Generally, when you get an unexpected error, it means you forgot a semicolon in the line before it.

include 'thank-you.php';

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