sessions?

[rish1103]

I'm fairly new to php but i've had a lot of php and C experience. I started to code a site just to help myself learn and i've started with a login script.

My question to be more specific is once a user logs in, how do i make specific pages available to them? To explain better, If i write a blog, i can easily do one without a login using a MySQL database but if i wanted to make it where you can only write into a blog if you are logged in which would mean that the actual page with the form is only visible if the user is logged in.

I hope i didnt confuse you all and I hope i can get some help. As i get further into my project I will have more questions but untill i can get thisone figured out i cant really go any further.

[niroshan]

when ever users logged in keep a session variable and assign his userId to that.

ex:

session_start();
$_SESSION['uId']=users ID

so if the user not logged in the session value will be empty. so you can check that session value in the restricted pages so if that session value is not set redirect him to login page.

ex:

session_start();
if(!isset($_SESSION['uId']))
{
    header("location:login.php");
}

Remember to unset the session variable when ever user logout.

Hope this will help you.

Regards,
Niroshan

[rish1103]

thanks man i'll give it a shot.