Session management

[dk4210]

Hello,
I am trying to set up a session management system for my site. Check out my site (under development) http://www.planttel.com/newsite2/home.php
I have a user auth system installed already. What I want is when a customer clicks on log in that it will prompt them for a user name and password (which I have established) with a check box that says "Remember my password" So when the user comes to the site they will already be logged in.. Can some one shed some lite on that for me.. A TOTAL NEWBIE!!!

[Anon]

Pretty simple, all you have to do is set a persistent cookie with a trackable value (eg, session id or client id etc etc) on the client machine longer than a single broswer session. Create a table to hold key-value paris for this "ID". When the customer returns you will be able to read this cookie, retrieve the "ID" and search in the table for the key-value pairs against this "ID". That's it you have the remember me concept.

good luck!

[Anon]

well to do that you would need to put a cookie in the person's computer containing their username and their password and whenever you authenticate if the person is logged in or not you would check to see if those cookies exist, if not then goto normal log-in process, but if they do exist then validate the username and password with your list and bam, they're already logged in. you can also try doing it with sessions but im not real keen on it. i just know how to use it. but a thought might be that you could add a cookie of their session id to their computer so as when they come back in their variables would already be set from the sessions cookie in the server. hope this helps.