Forum log in on main page ??

[p2parchive]

hey, i got my forum working www.p2p-archive.com/forum but id like to know how to put on the main page, a log in feature that is on most site, where on the front page you can login if u understand how ?? if any1 knows thanks

chris

[planetsim]

What sort of log..

Where are you getting this Log.

[LordShryku]

From the source of your login page:

<form action="login.php" method="post" target="_top">

Recreate the form on your front page....

[p2parchive]

lord im not too sure what to do, could you explain a bit more if u dont mind, :rolleyes: . 🙂

[LordShryku]

Well, wherever you want the form to be, build it something like this like this(taken from your source):

<form name="login" method="post" action="/forums/login.php">
<br>
<input type="text" name="username" size="25" maxlength="40" value="">
<br>
<input type="password" name="password" size="25" maxlength="32">
<input type="submit" name="login" value="Log in">
</form>

This points it the the forum's login page with the needed variables

[p2parchive]

im not sure if that code is done to work with my site, but i uploaded, put in my info and pass, logged in, it loads a page, but then says page cannot be found, i probably gotta change somat ?

[LordShryku]

Your action page needs to point to the login.php in your forums directory.

[p2parchive]

yep this works fine now, erm by any chance would you know how to have it so, when you log in, on the main page where the login is, is says the name you are logged in as, eg logged in as p2parchive, instead of the log in feature

[LordShryku]

Sorry, not offhand. I'd have to look at the code to see where it stores the login information (cookie, session, database, flat file, etc)

[helz]

all login info is just the forum stuff hes using... (phpbb)
if it uses sessions that it should be easy to use the same table for login thing for main site and forum, which is a nice feature i must add... but it means looking thru the code and copying 🙂