User Authentication question

[Anon]

I have a basic user authentication script

<? 
if($action=="admin") { 
  if($adminpassword == "MY PASSWORD") { 
 setcookie ("adminloggedin", "yes", "+3600"); 
header("Location: index.php"); 
}else { echo "Wrong password";}} 

if($action == "logout") { 
  setcookie ("adminloggedin", " ", "-3600"); 
header("Location: index.php"); 
}else{} 
?>

thanks to a friend of mine.

If I had several pages for my news script wether they be templates or acutally my news script.

I was wondering would I use a code like this
to check on evey page or script to make sure the user was loged in??

<? if($cookie == "value") {?> - 
something else goes here but what?? 

you content here 
[code=php]<? } else { Echo "You do not have access to this page"; 
} ?> 

thanks I appreciate your help

cya
Sam Colebatch
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http://www.samcolebatch.com

[Anon]

Sam,

Add a code like this:

<?php
if($adminloggedin == "yes") {
setcookie("adminloggedin", "yes", "+3600");

// display content here
}
else {
echo "You don't have access to view this page";
}
?>

EXPLANATION:
Basically the if statement checks to see whether the cookie variable named adminloggedin has a value "yes". If it does, then it updates the cookie (so that the 1 hour is counted from the time the person viewed the page rather than counting from to the time the person logged in). If the adminloggedin variable doesn't exist or has some other value, you get the "no access" message.

-sridhar

[Anon]

don't I have to include the admin script so it can check to see if they are logged in.

<?php
include ("auth.php");
if($adminloggedin == "yes") {
setcookie("adminloggedin", "yes", "+3600");

// display content here
}
else {
echo "You don't have access to view this page";
}
?>

thanks

[Anon]

If you are having multiple pages, you can include the auth.php on the first page people will go to, it will then set the cookie, which can be checked from the different pages without needing to re-check auth.php. (until you delete the cookie).

[Anon]

ahh I see thanks