Login System

Anon

What is the best route to take for this type of login system?

There are 3 board access levels.
(a. Site Admins b. Site Staff c. General Users
There is also specific page privilages to certain users.

What is the best way to code what I need? Also do you think I could code this in less than 2 days?

Thanks

EagleEyes

Anon

Use PHPLib (http://phplib.netuse.de). I created a similar system to track billable hours for my company. It has 4 access levels with each level having unique features. I created the entire system in under a week.

Anon

I have used this kind of logic with plenty of success:

*User info is stored in a database.

*At the top of each restricted page, a function restrict() is called, with parameters specifying which type(s) of user should be allowed to view the page.

*restrict() checks to see if the user is already logged in. If he isn't, a login form is displayed instead of the page. If the user is logged in, restrict() checks what type the user is logged in as, and then restricts access to the page accordingly.

I have never needed to grant priveleges to specific users - only to general types of user - but I'm sure you can think of something clever for that.

-Keegan

P.S. This probably isn't going to be as complicated as you expect - you might get it done in one afternoon.

Anon

You could code the login/access stuff in a day or so; it's not complicated. Levels are simple. It's just a column in a user table. Context-specific privileges are more complicated. You would need a table of contexts (privilege bundles, or pages in your example) and a relational table to connect users with those pages.