Simple question about authentication

rockn4him

Hello, I'm racking my brain here w/ a simple problem. I have a phpbb2 plus portal up and what i'm trying to do is this. When someone hits a certain link, the Teamspeak link in my case, I want to authenticate that they are logged in. If not direct to login page, if so direct to the teamspeak page. I have viewed MANY tutorials on the web about this and can't get it to do exactly what I need it to. The most sucess I've had is getting it to direct to login screen when not logged in, but when logged in it just loads the main portal page, not on to the teamspeak page. I know it's just a few lines I need to add to my php file to work this out, I just can't figure it out.

site www.sobf.net.

Thanks

Kudose

if($_SESSION['loggedin'])
  header('Location: teamspeak.php');
else
  header('Location: login.php');

Post some code if you can. I can take a look at it for you.

rockn4him

Okay, here's some code. I want to say this first to clarify what I've done. On my page www.sobf.net under board navigation there is a link for Teamspeak. I have that link pointed at a php file auth.php the code is this:

<?php
if($_SESSION['loggedin'])
header('Location: teamspeak.php');
else
header('Location: login.php');
?>

If not logged in it appropriately directs me to the login page. If logged in it directs me back portal.php not teamspeak.php. I'll can't post the teamspeak.php code, it's too long.

Hope this helps you help me.

thank you

Kudose

You should post up the part in teamspeak.php that is handling your current redirection so I can get a feel for your variable names and code structure.

Just post relevant code, not the whole page.

rockn4him

I think i'm confused. teamspeak.php is not handling any redirection. I thought that was the point of the auth.php file. teamspeak page is just a place that is getting redirected to. Maybe I'm doing this wrong, but I'm new at this also.

Kudose

Sorry, I meant to say to post up auth.php

The page that is handling the redirections ...

I have an odd feeling that it is happening because you forgot to use session_start() at the top of yout script.

rockn4him

Oh okay here is my auth.php page (all of it)

<?php

session_start();

if($_SESSION['loggedin']) 
header('Location: teamspeak.php'); 
else 
header('Location: login.php'); 

?>

I assume that's all I need because all it handles is the simple redirection.

Thank you so much for your help by the way.

batman

<?php

session_start();

if(session_is_registered('loggedin'));
{
header('Location: teamspeak.php'); 
}
else 
{
include('login.php'); 
exit();
}

?>

rockn4him

Tried the above to no avail. When I made those changes, nothing worked. Just a blank white page. Back to grinding board and a little frustration. Thanks for your efforts. keep them coming.

batman

im not sure how phpBB2 sets their sessions and all that, but this might be close:

<?php

session_start();

if(s.session_logged_in = "TRUE");
{
header('Location: teamspeak.php'); 
}
else 
{
include('login.php'); 
exit();
}

?>

rockn4him

THis might help. In other phpBB2 pages this seems to be the only "session start" code.

// Start session management
//
$userdata = session_pagestart( $user_ip, PAGE_INDEX, $session_length );
init_userprefs($userdata);
//
// End session management

batman

Try above code but change if statement to this:

if(session_logged_in = "0");

rockn4him

Well still no luck, same problems with this code

<?php 

session_start(); 

if(session_logged_in = "0");
{ 
header('Location: teamspeak.php'); 
} 
else 
{ 
include('login.php'); 
exit(); 
} 

?>

I dunno, i might give up for now. Thanks for your help and if you can think of anything else, please let me know.

batman

Okay heres what i would do. go to phpBB2 login page and find the part where its finished checking for errors and actually does the login script. Once there make it set your own custom session:
$_SESSION['logged'] = "true";
basically that will set a session when they log in.
THEN USE:

<?php 

session_start(); 
$logged = $_SESSION['logged'];
if($logged = "true"); 
{ 
header('Location: teamspeak.php');  

} 
else  

{ 
include('login.php');  

exit(); 
} 

?>

Get what im sayin'?