Sessions....?

[Anon]

I am making a member's only area of my site.
I have a login script that authenticates users, but now I need to know how to keep them logged into my site, and able to access member-only areas....
I have already run a search, and I have found no useable clues, code, or anything to help me....

[irwa82]

Dark,

I will try to give you a brief overview of how I do it.

Every page I want to have protected have these 2 lines of code:

$PageName = "downloads.php";
include("sessionstart.php");

The sessionstart.php file looks like this:

<?php
session_start();
session_register('SUserName');
session_register('SPassword');
session_register('SName');
session_register('SPageName');

$SPageName = "$PageName";

if ($SUserName == "")
{
include("login.php");
die;
}

if ($SPassword == "")
{
include("login.php");
die;
}
?>

This file basically checks to make sure they have logged in and if they haven’t sends them to a login page, pretty basic but it works great. The page name is stored so I can redirect them to the page they tried to access when they were not logged in. This also ensures that no one can access protected pages even if they know the url address.

So then you just need to write a login script that starts a session and then keep checking that they have a session by including the 2 lines mentioned above.

You can have as many session registers as you want to store different information.

Hope this helps,
Anthony Irwin

[jupiter]

You can use Cookie or Session to keep user`s login info ,exp:
<?
session_start();
session_register("USER_ID");
session_register("USER_PWD");
?>

then if you want to know whether the visitor
is your member,only use $USER_ID and $USER_PWD to compare. exp:
<?
session_start();
//$ID && $PWD are in your database!
if ($USER_ID==$ID && $USER_PWD==$PWD) {
// allow login

                                   }

else echo "Wrong!";
?>

[Anon]

What is 'downloads.php' ?
And, I have a main page. If you are logged in, it should show your stats, if your not, it would display Not Logged In.
So how do I do an
If ($....)
{
then show stats
}
else
{
Not Logged In
}
??