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You're missing a ">"
Don't know if that's the whole problem, but I'd fix that and try again

Well its progress my login page works correctly now thanks. However when I type in my username and password it just goes to authenticate.php but that comes up as a blank page

change this to this

for some reason it is still not working I changed what you said, hmm its probobly something obvious im just missing it

here is the current code updated

<?php
include_once 'connect.php';
session_start();

if (isset($_POST['submit']))
{
$player=$_POST['player'];
$password=$_POST['password'];
$player=strip_tags($player);
$password=strip_tags($password);
$password=md5($password);

$query = "select name,password from players where name='$player' and password='$password' ";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die("Could not query players");
$result2 = mysql_fetch_array($result);
if ($result2)
{
$_SESSION['player']=$player;

echo "<big>Logged in successfully<br>";
echo "<A href='battle.php'>Continue</a></big>";
}
else
{
echo "<big>Wrong username or password.<A href='login.php'>Try Again</a></big>";
}
}
?>

Hmmm... I don't see anything obvious. You're not getting any errors? Just the blank page you showed above?

yep just the blank page its really strange

Is it possible that the problem is in "connect.php"?

That program is included - maybe something in there is causing the problem. Post the code from connect.php so we can see it too please (you can hide your username/password if you need to

here is my connect.php

<?php

$db = mysql_connect ("localhost","root","") or die ("could not connect to database");
if (!$db)
die ("no database");
if (!mysql_select_db("tutorial",$db))
die ("no database selected");
?>

p.s. Thanks for the help it is much appreciated

then do some troubleshooting

remove this
and the last


from the bottom

then sees what happens

ah thats interesting that works so that is the problem does it matter if i don't have it