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[miztas]

Hi,

I have a page with two frames, one called main and one called menu. I want tusers to log in via a log in form, which passes the username and password to a login.php file which checks if the users details are in the database, if so I want it to load a new "members only" menu into the menu frame of the main page. Can I include a line in the login.php file to do this?

Thanks

[portaloo]

this way uses sessions

the following line will set $seshusername to either the current username or guest if the session variable has not been set

if (isset($SESSION['name'])) {
$seshusername = $SESSION['name'];
} else {
$seshusername = "guest";

rather than coding two different menus you can insert or delete links from the menu using the following code.

if the person has not logged in:

<? if ($seshusername=="guest"){?>non member links here<? }?>

if the person has logged in then

<? if ($seshusername!="guest"){?>member links here<? }?>

one dynamic menu.

ps if the login form is in the 'main' pane not the 'menu' pane then you will need to refresh the 'menu' pane when the form is submitted otherwise there will be no change in the layout of your menu