Building a user system

Sharif

I'm trying to setup a user system for my staff members of my website. When they go to http://domain.com/staff, if they haven't logged in, then it should display a page where it asks for username/password and the ability to remember their username/password (by ticking off a checkbox). They should also be allowed to logout using a link. Their usernames/passwords(MD5) are also stored in a database table (MYSQL).

I just need to setup a members only sort of area where depending on who logs in, certain variables have a certain value and some other things as well.

Where do I start? What should I read up on? Thanks for any help.

micmac

Hi there,
There are numerous scripts and tutorials out there for what your after.
One of the key areas you will need to look at are sessions. This will be used in tracking where the user is and what area's he/she may access.

Good luck,
micmac

babygodzilla

cookies/sessions

coreyp_1

This tutorial helped me in building my membership system:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/40/0.php

HTH

Sharif

Hey,

Thanks for the link. It's perfect and almost allows what I want to do. I need to figure out how to do the following:

If a user is not logged in and goes to [url]http://staff.domain.com,[/url] they are quickly redirected to login.php which contains a login script.
If a user logged in a few minutes before but exited the staff area, but then decides to come back to [url]http://staff.domain.com,[/url] they are automatically just logged in and able to use the staff pages.

How can I do this?

coreyp_1

Here is another tutorial that goes a little further than the previous one:

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/65/0.php

As for testing whether or not a user is logged in, you can do this by using sessions and testing whether or not the session variables are set. If they are not set then the user is not logged in, and you can either include the login form on that page, or redirect them to a page containing the login form.

To log them in after they have closed the browser, you need to use cookies.

There are many tutorials out there that can help you with these topics. Look around... it'll give you more ideas of what can be done!

HTH