Session and Useronline

[Anon]

I have been trying different things with session and I think I didn't do it the right way or something. Anyway, here is my problem and please someone help me.

Example: I have 5 files. "login.html", "login.php", "message.html", "message.php", and "signal.php"

Now, "login.html" is just a simple form which send then user name and password to "login.php", then "login.php" will check for the valid users against the database (MySQL). I have all of that working. For the sake of the argument let's say the login name is "coolPHP" and the password is "verycoolPHP".

Now, I know that I need to use session somewhere in some of the files or maybe in all 5 files. There are 2 things I need to do. First problem, "message.html" is where I am at after "login.php" check for the password and send me there. So, now I am at "message.html". In "message.html" I have another form which I will send that form to "message.php" and that form will insert into the database. What I need is somehow "message.html" and "message.php" has the login name (coolPHP) all along. So, when I insert the form into the database I have "coolPHP" as the message sender. Because the database is some thing like this:

---

sender | coolPHP |

message | This is my message |

status | on |

Second, I have to have a signal which will check every 5 second or so to see if "coolPHP" is still at "message.html". If he go to another page other than "message.html". I have to send a signal "signal.php" and tell me that "coolPHP" has left the "message.html" page... and the same thing when he logon to "message.html", the "signal.php" has to tell me that "coolPHP" is on "message.html".

Sorry for the long message. Thanks for your help.

Chris

PS. Please give me as specific example as possible. Because I tried these step and it did work:
session_start(); //start session
session_register("$user"); //register the variable

[Anon]

I can only give my ideas... Cant you use one file, and one file only?

if (isset($checkpass)) {
if (!empty($user) && !empty($pass)) {
// query database to check $user and $pass exists
// and other authentic stuff.
// if user= valid showmessages($user);
// else showmainpage();
}
else { }
}
else { }

function showmessages($user) {
echo "Welcome $user";
// more stuff here after valid login...
}

function showmainpage() {
the initial loginform etc etc.
}

Just ideas...

// Thomasson

[Anon]

No, I have to have separate files because I have frames. Thanks for you help...

I need to keep track of every one when the just get on "message.html" I have a signal and also when they get out of that page.

Thanks,

Chris

[Anon]

By the way, the closet example I can think of is creating a shopping cart. Where you can keep all the data through out the pages, and I only keep all the data only on one page "messeage.html"

Thanks,

Chris