if ($submit) doesn't work. Newbie needs help

[aaron_karp]

Hi everyone, thanks for looking at my thread. I'm a pretty new PHP programmer (my experience is with Flash's actionscript). Here's my problem:

I'm creating a simple page with a simple form (1 field) that requests a password from the user. Then I try to store that password as a session variable so I can check for it on the controlpanel.php page, which I want to be protected.

Basically, I need someone to help me with the code for those two pages - one for the login page which uses a <?=$PHP_SELF ?> action to run the variable through a script that tests it. And another script for the page which is to be password protected.

Also, if you have time, I need to figure out some code for every other page in the site that examies whether or not I'm logged in and displays a "log in" or "log out" link accordingly.

Thanks for any help you can give me! I really appreciate it!

[seanpaulcail]

I think if you use post for your form you can extrat it with $_Post

I also don't think its good form to post a page to itself.

Once you post the inforamtion you can mannage it with sessions. Be sure to start the sesession on each page and before all code.

Then after you post your admin info you can check it with PHP.

if(session_is_registered("admin_user")){then do something}else{do something else}

I think the session keeps track of all arrays posted during a session.
If you want a quicker repsonse to your questions post your code ask why it doesn't work, that way you will get more specific answers

hope this helps

[aaron_karp]

I think my big problem was that I only had session_start() on my form page. It works now thanks!