Login Popup

[Anon]

I intended to write a popup login dialog which shall appear when a user access any page that requires membership. Upon successful authentification, the user will resume the page where the popup was called.

I wrote a popup using JavaScript and found hard time in passing and letting PHP continue the processing after the information collection.

Here are the details...

common.inc is included in all files; contains code to do popup via JavaScript windows.showModalDialog("login.php") method.

login.php collects User ID and Password; has an event handler onClick at the "submit" button to toggle a JavaScript function Logon(). In this function, I wish to do authentification using PHP, then do a window.close() to close the popup and location.href() to reload the page upon successfuy login.

Any idea? Thanks.

[badman]

hi
i have a vague idea about how to do it, will take some refining to get it working..

try the following:

accept the values in the pop up and process it in the same pop up(you could use another php page for this in the same popup. after the authentication is ok then load another page in the browser window which opened this popup by this syntax

opener.location.href="your_page_after_auth.php";

however. i think there is a better way to do this, ie without pop up.
you can include a php file which authenticates login etc, in all the pages where needed. If its ok then continue loading the page else, exit;

think about it!

[Anon]

I agree with you that everything is cool without popups, i.e. proper logon then proceed.

I wanted the user not to feel that they're brought to another page when the system checked that he has not log on. So, popup seems to be the only choice.

Thanks, I've used URL to pass the parameters collected by JavaScript popup. The only major drawback was that the ID and password are exposed when I use JavaScript document.location() method.