Administrator Logging in as User?

[webnewone]

OK. See how this grabs ya!

I've built a lovely membership system for my client where members are granted access to particular folders on his website. I've created an admin section so he can communicate with his members, change member details, suspend/add/delete/upgrade a member, etc etc . . .

He's just asked for a feature that will allow him, from the admin section, log into the member center as a user.

I've seen this feature on some control panels like DirectAdmin, and Modern Bill but I'm not sure where to start? Any ideas?

Would appreciate any pointers! Got my head in as many PHP books as I have on my shelf and will update if I find an answer - in the meantime anyone done this already?

Thanks!

[Kudose]

You could set your master session variable to the members name he wants to log in as. Set a secondary session remembering him, and on the pages he is viewing, create a link that will delete the created secondary session, redirect him to his admin panel, and re-set the master session back to him.

Not sure if that is plausible, but it is just an idea. 🙂

[webnewone]

Thanks for the input!

I'm experimenting at the moment and slowly realising that this is indeed a session/cookie issue!

😃

[TruckStuff]

Why don't you just create another user account with lower rights? That's how we do it for testing and its a lot easier than trying to drop/escalate privelages in mid-session.