email PW often doesn't work

I have set up my email new password page, and on 10 tries this evening, the reset password only worked on 4 occasions.

if it always failed, that would be something to diagnose, but i can;t work out why it works some of the time

can you send a copy of the page so i can see the code.

Ok, here it is

One thing I see that could cause this page to not work is if you use the enter key to submit the form.


the enter key will press the first button on the page. On this page, the first button is the login button which will send you to the login page.


You have the email behavior set to send the user to the emailpwsent.php page. When it doesnt work, is the user going to that page or the login page?

When it doesnt work, what exact does happen?

Does the users password update in the database, but the email does not send, and the user is sent to the emailpwsent.php page?

Does the password update fail, the email fail and the user is directed to the login page?

or does the password update fail, the email fail and the user is directed to the emailpwsent.php page?

Hi Jason.

I will swap the button around, but..

When the email address is matched, the email is sent, every time, and the user is directed to the pwsent page.
When the email address is wrong, the user is directed to the fail page and no email is sent

However, the strange thing is, the password, even though it is always sent, doesn;t always work.

sometimes after 3 or 4 attempts, the login is allowed

Ok, so it is either an issue with the update record behavior or the login behavior, My Money is on the update behavior.


first, edit the email form element to give it a value attribute, I have seen erratic behavior come from form elements that doent have a value:

<input name="emailAddress" type="text" size="50" value="" />

next take of the redirect in the email behavior, change:

"successRedirect" => "emailpwsent.php",

to;

"successRedirect" => "",

then add an echo to the body of the page to show the update statement:

<?php if (isset($_POST["Send"])) { ?>

SQL: <?php echo($WA_Sql); ?>

newpassword session <?php echo($_SESSION['newpwd']); ?>

<?php } ?>

Thanks Jason.

The password and session variable were being set ok, so setting the text field value to an empty string may well have been it.

It seems to work now, I did get a couple of failures, but that was due, I think, to copy/paste errors

Ok glad to hear it is working