username print in html document

[jmcgee]

I am having a problem, and not sure how to deal with it. Part of my site is done with mostly basic html, and then parts were done with scripting (cgi for the store and bbs, and php for the live help). I would like to find a way that I can post the username in a corner of my pages. The login script for the site is done with php, and encrypted and stored in mysql. I can block users from parts of my site that require they be logged in, but I don't know if there is a way to "print" the username on the pages, and if possible, tie all of the scripts together so that they all use one database instead of separate ones.
Or should I be playing with cookies on this? I'm rather behind the times these days.

[scoppc]

Yep, you should befriend with cookies or session. This will allow you to print out the username in every pages. You can use the help of JavaScript to output the username in HTML pages, I guess. otherwise, you got to ask your webserver to parse HTML file as php too.

[jmcgee]

Thank you very much. I had a feeling that was where I was going to have to go. It's been a while since I played with scripting, and I haven't worked with php much. I figured that setting up that login script and making it secure was a big step as it was. The livehelp was a script I got from somebody else, and customizing that was easy. And I've always hated cookies, but the login script does set one, so I can use that to pull the username from.