Code doesn't print what i wanted it too. Please help!

Posted on 16th Feb 2014 by admin

Hi there,

I wrote this code to mae it so that in the form before it that the user said their username and then on this page it matches up the username with the username on the database and then uses the password of that users as $password. I am new to php and i thought that this would do the trick. But it doesn't. Instead of printing the password it prints "Resource id #6".

Here's the code:
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><title>Radio Ilam | Radio of the Suburbs</title><meta name="keywords" content="music note, free template, website template, CSS, XHTML" /><meta name="description" content="Music Note - free CSS template provided by templatemo.com" /><link href="templatemo_style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><style type="text/css">
.style1 {
text-align: center;
}
.style2 {
font-weight: bold;
color: #C32929;
}
.style3 {color: #FF0000}

td {padding: 2px; vertical-align:top; border-top: 1px solid #CCC;}
</style></head>

<body>










<?php
// Connects to your Database
mysql_connect("removed", "removed", "removed") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("a1408362_data") or die(mysql_error());


//checks cookies to make sure they are logged in
if(isset($_COOKIE['ID_my_site']))
{
}
$username = $_COOKIE['ID_my_site'];

if ($username <> "administrator")


{ header("Location: members.php");
}

else {}

?>









<div id="templatemo_container_wrapper">
<div id="templatemo_container">
<div id="templatemo_header">
<div id="templatemo_site_title">Radio<span class="style2">Ilam</span></div>
<div id="templatemo_site_slogan">Radio of the Suburbs</div>
</div>

<div id="templatemo_menuleft"></div>
<div id="templatemo_menu">
<ul>
<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="competitions.php">Competitions</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Lates Music</a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="current">Members</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Listen Live</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

<div id="templatemo_content">
<div id="templatemo_left_column">
<div class="templatemo_section2">
<h1>Administrator</h1>
<p>Welcome

<p><a href="logout.php">Logout</a></p>
</div>
<br />
&nbsp;
</div>

<div id="templatemo_right_column">

<?php

$username = $_REQUEST['catergory'] ;

$password = mysql_query("SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = '$username'");

echo "$password"

?>

<h1>User</h1>

<p>





</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="templatemo_footer">Copyright © 2009 RadioIlam<a href="#"></a></div>

</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

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