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    copied!<p>This is my first page, which would be my login page. The user types in their username, hits login, and then the broswer should take them to login.php Index.html</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;title&gt;Login&lt;/title&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body &gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;h2 align=center&gt;Quiz Taker&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;p align=center&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;form method="post" action="login.php"&gt; &lt;table class="login" cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 align="center" bgcolor="#cccccc" border="3"&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;input type="radio" name="userType" value="Student"/&gt; Student &lt;input type="radio" name="userType" value="Teacher"/&gt; Teacher &lt;td&gt; Username:&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="username" size=10&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td colspan=2 align="center"&gt; &lt;input type="submit" name="submit" value=" Log In "&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>When the user hits submit it will go to login.php which looks like this: </p> <pre><code>&lt;?php include_once("DatabaseConnection.php"); $stmt=$DBH-&gt;prepare("SELECT * FROM QuizUser where Name=?") $stmt-&gt;bindValue(1, $_POST['username']); $stmt-&gt;execute(); if ($row=$stmt-&gt;fetch()) { $ID=$row['ID']; } else { $stmt=$DBH-&gt;prepare("INSERT INTO QuizUser(Name) VALUES(?)") $stmt-&gt;bindValue(1, $_POST['username']); $stmt-&gt;execute(); $ID=$DBH-&gt;lastInsertId(); } $_SESSION['userID']= $ID; $_SESSION['userName']= $_POST['username']; $_SESSION['userType']=$_POST['userType']; if($_POST['userType'] == "Student") { header($string["Location:student.php"]); } else { header($string["Location:teacher.php"]); } ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>Which is not working and I cannot figure out why. It just pops up a parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in ....myfile.... at line whever the first time I try and use the $_POST variable. By the way, I am starting my session in the DataBaseConnection.php that is imported at the top of login.php. </p>
 

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