Added: November/05/2005 at 7:15am | IP Logged

Hello.

I have a response page that collect the user name and the password from html forms. Then, to handle the information I use 2 variables:

Dim theUser, oldPass

theUser = LCase(Request.Form("txtUserName"))
oldPass = Request.Form("txtUserPass")

I named the password as "oldPass" because I'd like to allow the user to change it, and this is the purpose of this page. Then, I named two other variables to collect the new password and to redigit it again:

Dim newPass1, newPass2

newPass1 = Request.Form("newPass1")
newPass2 = Request.Form("newPass2")

After, I created the connection to my SQL DB:

sqlText = "SELECT * FROM USERS WHERE user = '" & theUser & "' " & "AND password = '" & oldPass & "';"
set oConn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.connection")
oConn.open "DRIVER={SQL Server}; SERVER=msde20i.terraempresas.com; DSN=neumans; UID=neumans; PWD=q5r8f388"
Set oRSdb = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
oRSdb.Open sqlText, oConn
oRSdb.MoveFirst()

Then I created another varible to hold the database user name:

Dim theUserDB
theUserDB = LCase(oRSdb("user"))

Until now, everything goes fine. My problem is when I try to compare the database user name and the user name collected from the form:

If theUser = theUserDB Then
 Response.Write "OK."
Else
 Response.Write "Why they're not recognized as the same???"
End If

Why I can't get the "OK" result? Why the code says always that, for example, john isn't john?
Can anyone help me to solve this? What's the trick? What I have missed?

Thank you very much.

Added: May/27/2006 at 9:33am | IP Logged

The problem is very simple, and it happened with me before and still happing till now

the problem that john in not john because of the field and variable type

to solve it use this code

If cstr(lcase(theUser)) = cstr(lcase(theUserDB)) Then
 Response.Write "OK."
Else
 Response.Write "Why they're not recognized as the same???"
End If

what i did is ensuerd that both of them are lowered case and both of them are strings

Hope this helps

tell me what happens with you?

Best Regards