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    <blockquote> <p>So far the problem is it is saying the users email is not in the database when in fact it is.</p> </blockquote> <p>As far as I can see there is nothing wrong with your query but not putting your $tbl_name value in quotes probably isn't helping. Also, have you doubled checked the name attribute on the email input is definitely email too and that it all matches up correctly?</p> <blockquote> <p>Also, should I update the database to store the random password or will the way I have it work?</p> </blockquote> <p>The way I usually do it is like this, when they request a new password, generate a token along with their user id and email. Send them an email with a link, something like the following:</p> <p><code>example.com/reset/?id=THERE_ID&amp;token=RANDOM_TOKEN</code></p> <p>Then on that page check they match up and if it does, let them enter a new password.</p> <blockquote> <p>I have heard that it is not a good idea to send the original password to the user via email</p> </blockquote> <p>In all honesty, you shouldn't even be storing raw passwords in your db anyway, you want to look up things like <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.hash-hmac.php" rel="nofollow"><code>hash_hmac</code></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_%28cryptography%29" rel="nofollow">password salts</a> - there should be other links somewhere on those types of pages for you to figure it all out with the tutorials/examples.</p> <p>And as a final note, always validate your user input (<a href="http://www.regular-expressions.info/" rel="nofollow">regex for example</a>), since you're using <code>mysql_query</code> you always want to be escaping inputs too with <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.php" rel="nofollow"><code>mysql_real_escape_string</code></a> - a preferred method for querys is to use <a href="http://php.net/manual/en/pdo.prepared-statements.php" rel="nofollow">prepared statements</a>, these are very good to stop accidents such as <a href="http://psoug.org/blogs/mike/2010/04/11/little-bobby-tables/" rel="nofollow">little bobby tables</a> coming to your site.</p>
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