Georg Horn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > <TABLE >
> > <TR >
> > <TD>
> > <!-- Page Contents Goes Here -->
> > <H2>
> > Student: alter details
> > </H2>
> > *--------------------------------------------------------------*/
> > $sock = ConnectDatabase("BestNet");
> > /*--------------------------------------------------------------*/
> > $staff_ID = ValidateStatus ($sock, $user_ID, $password);
> > if($staff_ID == "")
> > {
> > echo("Use the browser's back button to return to the authentication page.
> > \n");
> > exit(1);
> > }
> >
> > .................... a whole lot of mixed lite and HTML goes
> > here...............
> >
> >
> > <!-- End of Page Contents -->
> > </TD>
> > </TR>
> > </TABLE>
>
> > Firstly echo("Use the browser's back button to return to the authentication
> > page. \n"); does not produce a result in the web page.
> > I want this message to appear.
>
> You'll see it if you look at the html-code in your browser. The message
> is generated within a <TABLE> environment, that is not closed by a </TABLE>
> tag (Because you call exit before). So the browser doesn't show the table at
> all.
>
> > Secondly all of the lite code and HTML after the if block and up to but not
> > including the </TD> tag is ignored.
> > But all of the HTML including the </TD>
> > tag and after is rendered correctly. This is the result I want. However it
> > implies that exit is a lot smarter than I had hoped. I was expecting exit()
> > to just to stop the Lite interpreter processing the page altogether.
>
> I think this can't be. exit() immediately stops execution of the whole page.
> Take a look at the html-code to see what is actuallay generated, and maybe put
> a echo("$staff_ID") into the script to see if exit is really called.
>
> Bye,
> Georg
>
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Yeah this is what I thought too. But here is what is actually produced when you
give a bad password.
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{Error: either there is no person registered with that identity or the
pass-word is invalid. }
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