PDO Exceptions in PHP - php

Question

Okay I have a bit of a question dealing with $_POST. I'm attempting to send a few values from an Android App (Using HTTPclient) I'm developing but the PHP sends the message from the exception back. I'm trying to figure out why is that happening and how to fix it:
login
<?php
//load and connect to MySQL database stuff
require("configmob.php");
if (!empty($_POST)) {
//gets user's info based off of a username.
$query = "
SELECT
myusername,
mypassword
FROM Customer
WHERE
myusername = :myusername
mypassword = :mypassword";
$query_params = array(
':myusername' => $_POST['username'],
':mypassword' => $_POST['password']
);
try {
$stmt = $db->prepare($query);
$result = $stmt->execute($query_params);
}
catch (PDOException $ex) {
// For testing, you could use a die and message.
//die("Failed to run query: " . $ex->getMessage());
//or just use this use this one to product JSON data:
$response["success"] = 0;
$response["message"] = "Database Error1. Please Try Again!";
die(json_encode($response));
}
//This will be the variable to determine whether or not the user's information is correct.
//we initialize it as false.
$validated_info = false;
//fetching all the rows from the query
$row = $stmt->fetch();
if ($row) {
//if we encrypted the password, we would unencrypt it here, but in our case we just
//compare the two passwords
if ($_POST['password'] === $row['password']) {
$login_ok = true;
}
}
// If the user logged in successfully, then we send them to the private members-only page
// Otherwise, we display a login failed message and show the login form again
if ($login_ok) {
$response["success"] = 1;
$response["message"] = "Login successful!";
die(json_encode($response));
} else {
$response["success"] = 0;
$response["message"] = "Invalid Credentials!";
die(json_encode($response));
}
}
?>
config
<?php
// These variables define the connection information for your MySQL database
$host = "mysql17.000webhost.com";
$dbname = "a4335408_data1";
$username = "******";
$password = "******";
// UTF-8 is a character encoding scheme that allows you to conveniently store
// a wide varienty of special characters, like ¢ or €, in your database.
// By passing the following $options array to the database connection code we
// are telling the MySQL server that we want to communicate with it using UTF-8
// See Wikipedia for more information on UTF-8:
// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
$options = array(PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => 'SET NAMES utf8');
// A try/catch statement is a common method of error handling in object oriented code.
// First, PHP executes the code within the try block. If at any time it encounters an
// error while executing that code, it stops immediately and jumps down to the
// catch block. For more detailed information on exceptions and try/catch blocks:
// http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.exceptions.php
try
{
// This statement opens a connection to your database using the PDO library
// PDO is designed to provide a flexible interface between PHP and many
// different types of database servers. For more information on PDO:
// http://us2.php.net/manual/en/class.pdo.php
$db = new PDO("mysql:host={$host};dbname={$dbname};charset=utf8", $username, $password, $options);
}
catch(PDOException $ex)
{
// If an error occurs while opening a connection to your database, it will
// be trapped here. The script will output an error and stop executing.
// Note: On a production website, you should not output $ex->getMessage().
// It may provide an attacker with helpful information about your code
// (like your database username and password).
die("Failed to connect to the database: " . $ex->getMessage());
}
// This statement configures PDO to throw an exception when it encounters
// an error. This allows us to use try/catch blocks to trap database errors.
$db->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
// This statement configures PDO to return database rows from your database using an
associative
// array. This means the array will have string indexes, where the string value
// represents the name of the column in your database.
$db->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE, PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
// This block of code is used to undo magic quotes. Magic quotes are a terrible
// feature that was removed from PHP as of PHP 5.4. However, older installations
// of PHP may still have magic quotes enabled and this code is necessary to
// prevent them from causing problems. For more information on magic quotes:
// http://php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.php
if(function_exists('get_magic_quotes_gpc') && get_magic_quotes_gpc())
{
function undo_magic_quotes_gpc(&$array)
{
foreach($array as &$value)
{
if(is_array($value))
{
undo_magic_quotes_gpc($value);
}
else
{
$value = stripslashes($value);
}
}
}
undo_magic_quotes_gpc($_POST);
undo_magic_quotes_gpc($_GET);
undo_magic_quotes_gpc($_COOKIE);
}
// This tells the web browser that your content is encoded using UTF-8
// and that it should submit content back to you using UTF-8
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
// This initializes a session. Sessions are used to store information about
// a visitor from one web page visit to the next. Unlike a cookie, the information is
// stored on the server-side and cannot be modified by the visitor. However,
// note that in most cases sessions do still use cookies and require the visitor
// to have cookies enabled. For more information about sessions:
// http://us.php.net/manual/en/book.session.php
session_start();
// Note that it is a good practice to NOT end your PHP files with a closing PHP tag.
// This prevents trailing newlines on the file from being included in your output,
// which can cause problems with redirecting users.
?>
Thank you and I hope this question isn't too difficult or anyhting.

Answer 1

Try replacing the static error message with the exception message to see what's going wrong
Change:
$response["message"] = "Database Error1. Please Try Again!";
to:
$response["message"] = $ex->getMessage();

Answer 2

Conditions in a WHERE statement must be separated with AND keyword