Lost Password Form

Hi there all

i got this code for my lost password option goes like this :

<? 
include 'db.php';
switch($_POST['recover']){ 
    default: 
    include 'lostpsw.php'; 
    break;
    case "recover": 
    recover_pw($_POST['email_address']); 
    break; 
} 
function recover_pw($email_address){ 
    if(!$email_address){ 
        echo "You forgot to enter your Email address"; 
        include 'lostpsw.php'; 
        exit(); 
    } 
    // quick check to see if record exists     
    $sql_check = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE email_address='$email_address'"); 
    $sql_check_num = mysql_num_rows($sql_check); 
    if($sql_check_num == 0){ 
        echo "No records found matching your email address<br />"; 
        include 'lostpsw.php'; 
        exit(); 
    } 
    // Everything looks ok, generate password, update it and send it!
    function makeRandomPassword() { 
          $salt = "abchefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz0123456789"; 
          srand((double)microtime()*1000000);  
          $i = 0; 
          while ($i <= 7) { 
                $num = rand() % 33; 
                $tmp = substr($salt, $num, 1); 
                $pass = $pass . $tmp; 
                $i++; 
          } 
          return $pass; 
    }
    $random_password = makeRandomPassword();
    $db_password = md5($random_password);
    $sql = mysql_query("UPDATE users SET password='$db_password' 
                WHERE email_address='$email_address'");
    $subject = "Your Password at The Truth Discovered!"; 
    $message = "Hi, we have reset your password.
    New Password: $random_password 
    http://www.thetruthdiscovered.com/login.php 
    Thanks! 
    The Webmaster 
    This is an automated response, please do not reply!"; 
    mail($email_address, $subject, $message, "From: The Truth Discovered Webmaster< admin@mydomain.com>\n 
        X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion()); 
    echo "Your password has been sent! Please check your email!<br />"; 
    include 'login.php'; 
} 
?> 

PHP:

the form is here :

<?php include 'header.php'; ?>
<center>
<p align="center"><font face="Calligraphic" size="5" font color="white">New Password Request</font></p>
<form action="lost_pw.php" method="post"> 
<font face="Calligraphic" font color='white' size="4"> Email Address:<font color='white'>*</font>
<input type=text name='email_address' size=30><br><br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Get Password" name="recover"> 
</form>
</center>
<br><br>
<?php include 'footer.php'; ?>

PHP:

can someone please tell me what im doing wrong? when you enter your email address , and hit get password , it flashes, does nothing and stays on the form page ! no errors either!

Help !! please

THank you

Elaine

 

I think it should be like this

 case "recover": 
$email_address=$_POST['email_address']
    recover_pw($email_address); 
    break; 

Code (markup):

 

when i changed that i get the error :

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/www/thetruthdiscovered.com/lost_pw.php on line 9

any ideas?

Elaine

 

Missed a ; at end of that line

$email_address=$_POST['email_address'];

 

oh yea !

k i changed it but now it is just flashing the page and doing nothing !

is there another way of requesting a new password instead of this way?

ELaine