PHP User Authentication

[gamew0rld]

I am looking for a PHP User Authentication script. It will be used on a site where people will be playing games, so they will be idle for a while and I dont want them to be logged out while playing games, so the script will probably need to use cookies. Now, members and non-members will be able to access all of the pages. The reason why there will be members is so there are no ads displayed on the site. I have an idea on how to do that, but I just thought I would explain everything I need. If anyone knows of a good script that can do this, please let me know. I dont know PHP. Any help would be appreciated

[Blob]

I don't know of a script that can do that particularly...

But here's a tutorial on how to create login and register pages.
http://robouk.mchost.com/tuts/tutorial.php?tutorial=login

I'm assuming people would have to pay to become a member, so they don't see the ads? You could use paypal or something to accept Credit Cards if that's what you want to do.

If you had an ad like <img src="banner.gif"> somewhere on your site, you could check if the user is a member (like on the members.php page in the tutorial I linked to) with:

if(!isset($_COOKIE['LoggedIn']))
{
// User isn't logged in, display the ad.
echo '<img src="banner.gif">';
}
else
{
// User's logged in, skip the ad.
}

[laserlight]

I think PHP Builder has some article on user authentication, that sort of thing.

I suggest you read it, or find more articles.

In the case of the example given, it could well be very susceptible to ppl using fake cookies.