login cookie

lilRachie

I have read this on php.net
The manual states that "cookies will not become visible until the next loading of a page that the cookie should be visible for", but there's a way around this that doesn't require a refresh. Just set the $_COOKIE variable right after you setcookie().

$lang = 'pt-br';
setcookie('lang', $lang);
$_COOKIE['lang'] = $lang;

The reason for this is that $_COOKIE is automatically set only when the page loads, but setting it explicitely makes the new cookie value available globally even for the same page that created it.

ok that made sence
so I made

<?
$user = $GET['userid'];
$pass = $GET['pass'];

include("connect.php");
$sql2 = "SELECT password FROM table WHERE email='$email'";
$ExecuteQuery2 = mysql_query($sql2);

$getit = mysql_fetch_array($ExecuteQuery2,MYSQL_ASSOC);
$userid = $getit['email'];
$password = $getit['password'];

if ($userid == $user && $password==$pass)
{
mysql_close($db_conn);
$login ="$user:$pass";
setcookie("FREEcam","$user:$pass",time()+4200,"/members/","www.freecamshow.com","0");
$_COOKIE['FREEcam'] = $login;
header("Location: http://www.url.com/members/index.php");
exit;
}
else
{
header("Location: http://www.Url.com/joinus.html");
}
?>

I'm still getting the popup login box. Any clues?

lilRachie

nemonoman

Maybe I don't understand your problem:

What I would expect is something like:

if($_COOKIE['freecam']){
//go to the memebers page, I guess
}

But it isn't in there anywhere.

Since you don't check if the cookie is there, everybody goes to the log in page. Is that your situation?

Or is your situation that even after finding the userid/password, your users are still being directed to the login page? Is THAT the situation?

If so, then you need to find out why this clause:

if ($userid == $user && $password==$pass)

is returning results different than what you expect.

echo " ($userid == $user && $password==$pass) ";

compare the results carefully.

lilRachie

it works up until the "header redirect", then I'm getting same popup login box I'd get if I typed http://www.url.com/members/index.php directly in myself

tia
lilRachie

nemonoman

excuse me, but
header("Location: http://www.url.com/members/index.php");
exit;

is supposed to produce the same results as if you'd typed http://www.url.com/members/index.php directly

What did you want to occur?

lilRachie

I wanted it to refresh and be logged in to the members area. Is that wrong?

TIA

lilRachie

nemonoman

Your answers are confusing. Since you never check whether the cookie has been set in the code you show, there's no way for me to know what behavior you expect will be different from the behavior you specify. It looks to me like the computer is doing what you have told it to do. Apparently what you have told it to do is not what you want it to do. Can you explain what's missing from the behavior you desire?

lilRachie

I want a log-in

<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>
<form method="POST" action="member.php">
<center>
<table width="780" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="421">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<font color="#000000" face="Arial">
<font size="4">
<b>
userid: <input type="text" name="userid" size="35" class=textbox>
<br>
password: <input type="password" name="pass" size="35">
<br>
<input type=submit value=Enter name=submit>
</td></tr></table>
</center></form></BODY></HTML>

member.php is
<?
$user = $GET['userid'];
$pass = $GET['pass'];

include("connect.php");
$sql2 = "SELECT password FROM doubled WHERE email='$email'";
$ExecuteQuery2 = mysql_query($sql2);

$getit = mysql_fetch_array($ExecuteQuery2,MYSQL_ASSOC);
$userid = $getit['email'];
$password = $getit['password'];

if ($userid == $user && $password==$pass)
{
mysql_close($db_conn);
$login ="$user:$pass";
setcookie("FREEcam","$user:$pass",time()+4200,"/members/","www.url.com","0");
$_COOKIE['FREEcam'] = $login;
header("Location: http://www.url.com/index.php");
exit;
}
else
{
header("Location: http://www.url.com/joinus.html");
}
?>
The user types their id and password in form and they are in members area.
user/pass being in cookie so they are let in.

TIA
lilRachie

nemonoman

someplace, somewhere you need a line of code that starts

if($_COOKIE['freecam']){
//put the behavior you want here
}

lilRachie

I'm not sure where to put it.
before or after this:

TIA
lilRachie

examancer

I would say after. Also, since you are setting $_COOKIE manually you shouldn't need to redirect at all. Get rid of the Header('Location... and exit() stuff and let the script continute, then have your COOKIE checking code:

if (isset($_COOKIE['freecam'])) {
  // getting to here would mean the users is logged in I guess.
} else {
  // this would mean that the user still needs to log in
}

nemonoman

it would go on your first page:

<? if($_COOKIE['freecam']){
header("location: YouAreAlreadyLoggedInPage.htm")
}
else{
?>
<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>
<form method="POST" action="member.php">
<center>
<table width="780" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="421">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<font color="#000000" face="Arial">
<font size="4">
<b>
userid: <input type="text" name="userid" size="35" class=textbox>
<br>
password: <input type="password" name="pass" size="35">
<br>
<input type=submit value=Enter name=submit>
</td></tr></table>
</center></form></BODY></HTML>
<?}

lilRachie

Neither of those will log me in like when I log-in here on phpbuilder.

🙁 😕

lilRachie

nemonoman

Sadly, you will have to write some actual code to make this happen.

lilRachie

I thought is what I was writing ... wasn't it?

😕

lilRachie

nemonoman

Lilrichie, we haven't seen any code since your initial code which was not set up to work properly. I and others have suggested ways to improve your code. You say "These don't log me on like PHPBuilder".

I have no idea what this means. Show me some new code.

lilRachie

The code I've shown you from post 1 is the code.
I thought setting a cookie/user:pass would log them in therefore the redirect to members page.

lilRachie

nemonoman

And yet your code doesn't do that. Perhaps your impression of what should work is incorrect. I would consider utilizing some of the suggestions made to help you.

lilRachie

I've tried. It's doing what I need doing.

😕

lilRachie
ps. i'm new to php