Secure Login

[duckula]

I have read through a couple of posts, mystified, yes, you guessed a newbie.

Here goes, I have a mysql database contaning member information. I have a php page that lets people add their details.

I can create pages to view/edit/delete etc. but only if a user has "logged in" to view/edit/delete their own information. At some point I may also want further pages to be "password protected". Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[nyanu]

One of the simple way is to use session.

session is initialise at top of login script.
then when the user verified his status, you can set a session varible eg. $_SESSION['userid']=userid

then at the top of every php page, you include a check to determine whether $_SESSION['userid'] is valid if it is not valid, redirect to unauthorise login.

of cos there are other ways too. this is just one of the simple way.