Re-Login using a time stamp, please help

[quetz67]

Hello, I am pretty new to PHP, so my approch maybe strange.

I use the http authentification for user login, but the user needs to be able to re-login with a different user name (or the same).

I tried about every hint from the php.net manual but nothing worked. So I decided to use a time stamp like this when the form is submitted:

<?php echo '<form name="form2" method="post" action="'.$PHP_SELF.'?'.time().'">' ?>

Then I do a new authentification if I am still in a 3 second range of the timestamp like this:

if ((($url[query] > (time()-3)) AND $Logout <> ''") then Login

Obvisously this only works if the page was recently (re)loaded as the timestamp in the form is evaluated when the page loads.

How can I send the URL with timestamp when the button is pressed?

Or are there obvious ways to do this completely different?

[richie]

The page is automatically reloaded when the button is pressed.

<?php echo '<form name="form2" method="post" action="'.$PHP_SELF.'?'.time().'">' ?>

What I see missing above is a variable name for the timestamp. So why not try this:

<form name="form2" method="post" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF."?theStamp=".time(); ?>">

You can now obtain the old time using $theStamp.

You must watch out for $PHP_SELF. It does some funny things sometimes.

Richie.

[quetz67]

thanks, richie, at least I get the stamp easier this way.

but that was not my problem, the problem is, the time() is evaluated when the page is loaded, not when my reload button is pressed