[Resolved] Member Box after login

Muses

Problem getting this to pass from one area to the next.

footer.html
</td>

<td valign="top" width=20%>

<?php
// Display links based upon the login status.
if (isset($SESSION['member']) AND (substr($SERVER['PHP_SELF'], -10) != 'logout.php')) {
include('login_status.php'); //If logged in it will show member info.
;

} else {
include('login.php'); //If not logged in it will show login form.
}
?>
<p></p>

<?php
include('search.php');
?>

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" class="outline">
<tr><td class=head2>Affiliates</td></tr>
<tr><td>Filler</td></tr>
<tr><td>Filler</td></tr>
<tr><td>Filler</td></tr>
<tr><td>Filler</td></tr>
<tr><td>Filler</td></tr>
</table>

</td></tr>
</table>

</td>
</tr>

<tr><td align="center" colspan=3> </td></tr>
<tr><td align="center" colspan=3 class=footer><p align=center>Copyright Notice!</p></td></tr>
</table>

<!-- end main area -->

</td></tr></table>
</body>
</html>

I can get the login working which does bring it to the login_status.php page.

<form action="forms/memb_login.php" method="post">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" name="menu" class="outline">
<tr><td valign=top class=head2 colspan=2>Member Login</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>UserName:</td>
<td>
<input class=title name="name" type="text" id="name" style="width: 100px;" maxlength="30" value="">
</td></tr>

<tr>
<td>Password:</td>
<td>
<input class=title name="password" type="password" id="password" maxlength="30" style="width: 100px;">
</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td>
<input class=head type="submit" name="Submit" value="Login"> 
<input class=head type="reset" name="Reset" value="Clear">
</td></tr>

<tr><td colspan=2 align=center>Forgot Password     <a href="register.php">Register</a></td></tr>
</table>
</form>

memb_login.php

<?php

// For register_global on PHP settings
$name = $_POST['name'];
$password = $_POST['password'];

// MySQL Connection Variables
// Fill in your values for the next 4 lines
$hostname='localhost';
$user='';    //user name for MySQL database
$pass='';    //Password for database
$dbase='';    //database name

$connection = mysql_connect("$hostname" , "$user" , "$pass") or die ("Can't connect to MySQL");
$db = mysql_select_db($dbase , $connection) or die ("Can't select database.");

// Check for empty fields
if (empty($name) || empty($password))
{
die ("Error. Please fill in all required fields."); // once a die statement is execute, the whole script stops executing
}

// Match Row in Database
$qChk = "select name from membership where name='$name' and password='$password' and status='Y' ";
$rsChk = mysql_query($qChk);

$rowCount = mysql_num_rows($rsChk);

if ($rowCount !='1') // query did not return 1 row, user is not verified
{
die ("Error. Your password does not match your username or your account was not yet activated. Please try again.");
}

// User is login. Let's give him a cookie. *Munch*
setcookie ("member",$name,time()+1957240,"/");
$member = $name;
session_register("member"); // set session, just in case cookie is blocked.

// Update Login timer
$qUpdate = "update membership set login = now() where name='$name' and password='$password' and status='Y' ";
$rsUpdate = mysql_query($qUpdate);

if ($rsUpdate)
{
header("Location: /index.php"); // redirects members to a welcome member page
}

?>

login_status.php
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" name="menu" class="outline">
<tr><td valign=top class=head2 colspan=2>Member Account</td></tr>

<tr><td colspan=2>
Member: <br/>
Profile || Update<br/>
<a href="logout.php">Logout</a><br/>
Change Password</td></tr>
</table>

This is where I have a problem, I want it show the member name and in the future a few other things. I have tried using {$_SESSION['member']} to pull up the member name as in the login processer it sets $member = $name but iit just pulls up the member box as blank.

Any help or point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Weedpacket

Looking at your member_login.php code, my suspicion is that you left out

session_start();

up around the top there.

Incidentally, using [man]session_register[/man] is somewhat deprecated (note all the cautions on that page). The current method is to use $SESSION['member'] = whatever the value should be. For one thing, if there is alreay a session variable called "member" in the session then

$member = $name;
session_register('member');

will replace the contents of $member (i.e., $name) with whatever was already in the session. Using $_SESSION can help avoid that mistake because

$member = $name;
$_SESSION['member'] = $member;

obviously does what's expected.

Muses

I have the first session called in the header.html.

<?php

session_start(); // Start a session.
require_once ('mysql_connect.php'); // Connect to the database.
?>

session_start(); // Start a session.
	require_once ('mysql_connect.php'); // Connect to the database.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title><?php echo $page_title; ?></title>
<link REL=STYLESHEET TYPE="text/css" HREF="style.css">
</head>
<body>

<!-- main area -->

<td valign="top" class="content" width=60%> 
<!-- main content -->

by what you said I should? :

session_start(); // Start a session.
$member = 'name';
$_SESSION['member'] = $member;

Weedpacket

Yup; just use session_register() to start the session, and then treat $_SESSION pretty much like any array - the only difference is its magical ability to remember stuff from previous pages.