How to execute the exit command from other location?

Lauj

Is there a way to send the exit; command to a location on the .php file? Here's what I'm trying to do. I want a login page. If the user failed to have the proper authorization, I want to terminate the page from displaying. However, I want to execute the php Exit command at the very end of the </html> tag. Is this possible? The problem of not doing this is that any javascript that comes after the php exit command will not get executed if the php exit command is in the middle of the page. So this is why I like to know if there is a way to exit the exit at the very end of any code.

I have tried function calling...but only to find out that the exit command will get excuted at the location of the function calling and not the location of where the exit command is written.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

ljCharlie

devinemke

separate the chunks of HTML output that come before and after your form validation. for example: the header in "header.php" and the footer in "footer.php":

include('header.php');

// login code

if (!$login)
{
	echo 'invalid login!';
	include('footer.php');
	exit();
}

Lauj

Many thanks for your help. Below are my verification codes.

<?PHP
$usrName = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["AdminUsrName"];
$password = $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS["AdminPassword"];
if($usrName =="" || $password ==""){
echo "You do not have permission to access this page without login properly. ";
exit;
}
@ $db = mysql_connect("localhost", "localuser", "localpassword");
if (!$db) {
echo "Error: Could not connect to database. Please try again later.";
exit;
}
mysql_select_db("alumni");

//*****************Test if user have permission*******************************************
$query = 'SELECT FROM fndUser WHERE usrName LIKE "%'.$usrName.'%" AND usrPassword = "'.$password.'"';
//echo "Query: ".$query." ";
$result = mysql_query($query);
//echo "Result: ".$result." ";
$num_results = mysql_num_rows($result);
//echo "Num Results: ".$num_results." ";
if ($num_results == ""){
echo 'Incorrect password or username. Please <a href="adminLogin.shtml">login</a> again. ';
echo "Thank you! ";
exit;
}
?>

How do I incorporate your suggestion into something like the above codes?

devinemke

as my example suggests, simply include() your footer right before you call exit()