Newbie Password check problem

[email protected] ("Ronald Hemmink") Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:05:08 +0100
Newsgroups	php.lang
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Hello there fellow programmer,

I just started learning PHP (I got version 4 installed with Apache on a
Win98 machine). At the moment I'm trying to write a little program that
verifies a user login.
I know the program is not professional but for me it will do. Only I got
stuck with the following problem. I have written a class (I'm not very sure
if this is the right way to do this) in which I specified a function that
does the password check.
Now I like the program to check the password and return me a true or a false
which I can read from somewhere else in my program.
I wrote it like this:

<html>
<head>
       <title>Password Check</title>

<?PHP class password
{
 function checkpwd()
 { ?>

 <FORM ACTION="<?php print("$PHP_SELF"); ?>" METHOD="POST">
 User name is:<BR>
 <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="UserName"> <P>

 <?php echo "Give Password:<BR>" ?>

 <INPUT TYPE="PASSWORD" NAME="passwd">
 <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="GeefInfo" VALUE=1> <p>
 <INPUT TYPE="submit">

 <?PHP if (IsSet($this->GeefInfo)&&IsSet($this->UserName))
       {
        $this->UserName=strtoupper($this->UserName);
         $this->passwd=strtoupper($this->passwd);

           if (IsSet($this->passwd))
             {
                if ($this->passwd=="MYPASS" && $this->UserName=="RONALD")
                {
                 $this-> testvar=1;
                 exit(1);
                }
                else
                {
                 $this-> testvar=0;
                 exit(0);
                }

             }

        }
  }
}?>

</head>
<body>

<?php $exec_pwd=new password;
$vexec_pwd->checkpwd();
print $exec_pwd;                     // Where is my output   ?????
?>

</body>
</html>

If you can and like to help me I will be very pleased.
Thanks in advance !!!

Ronald