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[Tiger99]

There are some websites that requrie user to register by entering user name, password, and email address. Then, the site sends a user the activation link to their email inbox.

Could someone explain how is work?

I am trying to use cookie on my web site

Thanks in advance

[herve]

Hi,

I'm not sure of your question;

a "link of activation" mean for me a link
on which I need to click to activate my account
on a web site.

One simple idea is :

1) when the user register (giving its name,
login, password, etc.) the PHP script
generate a unique numerical ID

2) then the script send a mail message, which
include a URL like this :

 [url]http://myserver.com/activate.php?id=1234[/url]

3) The user click on the link, doing so it
lauch the activate.php script, which get
the numerical ID of the account to be activated

Using cookie is an other idea.

When your user is registered, it need to log in
then he type his login/password, then you can
send him a "ticket", which is stored in a cookie
on his PC.

Each time he will activate an hyperlink in the
private part of the board, the PHP script need
first to check if the user has a valid cookie
(asking the user's PC "What's your ticket value ?" and checking it against a list of values stored
in a RDBMS like MySQL for instance.

May be you should start with some tutorials
you can find here about setting up a private part
of a web site. It can be tricky at first glance.

Good luck !

Hervé.

[Tiger99]

I am trying to build a login method like the one in phpbuilder.com
(eg. the user only need to login at the first time, and login are not requried after).

I read the tutorial. So I wrote the following code
In scritp 1:
I got the user name, email, password...etc
Then I create the cookie:
$time = mktime(12, 0, 0, 1, 1, 3000);
setcookie("email", $email, $time, "/", "");

In script 2 or all other scripts
I check if the cookie is there
if(!isset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["email"])){
header("Location: login.php");
exit();
}

However, it doesn't create the cookie(I think). Because after I close all the browser and go the script 2 3... again. It goes back to login page again

Why???

Please help

Thanks in advance

[herve]

Hi,

at least there's a problem here :

$time = mktime(12, 0, 0, 1, 1, 3000);

mktime() doesn't accept such a far away date 🙂
the year max is 2069; but more seriously
you can use 2010 for instance.

Or, more elegant, use the current date/time
and add a delay (1 hour, 1 day, etc.) .

Hervé.