Help with sessions

phpfreek

Hello;
i am modifying an open source user management script that i found on the web.

Here is the login page of it :

<?php

session_start();
include("config.php");

$msg = "";

if (isset($_POST['Submit']))
{

$username = $_POST['username'];
$password = md5($_POST[password]);

$result = mysql_query("Select * From login_table where user_name='$username'",$con);

if(mysql_num_rows($result)>0)
{
	$row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_BOTH);
	if($password == $row["user_pass"])
	{

		$_SESSION['loginok'] = "ok";
		$_SESSION['username'] = "username";
		$_SESSION['password'] = "password";
		$_SESSION['level'] = $row["user_level"];


		header("Location: index.php");

	}
	else
	{
		$msg = "Password incorrect";
	}
}
else
{
	$msg = "Username incorrect";
}

}

<html>
<head>
<title>Login</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>

<body>
<p align="center"><strong>Soldier Arena Login</strong></p>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
<p align="center"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Please
enter your username and password to login</font></p>
<p align="center"><?php echo "<font color='red'>$msg</font>" ?></p>
<table class="table" width="35%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="#000000">
<tr bgcolor="#000000">
<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><font color="#FC9801" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>LOGIN</strong></font></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Username:  </font></div></td>
<td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input name="username" type="text" id="username" width="200" size="20">
</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="right"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Password:  </font></div></td>
<td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<input name="password" type="password" id="password" width="200" size="20">
</font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="" target="blank"><font color="#ffffff"></font></a></td>
<td><div align="center">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p align="center" class="smallErrorText"><a href="forgot.php">Forgot Password ? </a></p>
</form>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong></a>
<a href="http://www.tarakji.net/adduser.php">New User ? Register here</a></strong><br>
</font><strong></strong><a href="" target="blank"></a></p>
<p>  </p>
</body>
</html>

And here is my index page :

<?php include "level1_check.php";?>
<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>Soldier Arena is still under construction</title>
</head>

<p align="center">Soldier Arena is still under construction, Please check back
another time.</p>

<p align="center">Thank you for your support</p>

<p align="center"><a href="http://www.tarakji.net/logout.php">Logout</a></p>

</body>

</html>

I would like to put in my index page "hello $username", but it won't work ... i have to use sessions, does anyone know how i can do that with a session ?
Please help me 🙂
Thank you in advance;
PHPFREEK

rincewind456

Put [man]session_start/man at the very first line of code in each page you want the session to be used in.

Then in your index page you will be able to echo out $POST['username'] like

echo "hello ".$_POST['username'];

phpfreek

Hey bro, thanks for your help, but it didin't work 🙁

When i did like u asked me 2, i received the folowing message :

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ECHO in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\xampplite\htdocs\xampp\test\Login\index.php on line 3

What should i do now ??

rincewind456 wrote:
Put [man]session_start/man at the very first line of code in each page you want the session to be used in.

Then in your index page you will be able to echo out $POST['username'] like
echo "hello ".$_POST['username'];

phpfreek

Hey bro, thanks for your help, but it didin't work 🙁

When i did like u asked me 2, i received the folowing message :

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ECHO in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\xampplite\htdocs\xampp\test\Login\index.php on line 3

What should i do now ??

P.S : my page is as follows now :

<?php
session_start()
echo "hello".$_POST['username'];
include "level1_check.php";
?>
<html>

<p align="center">Soldier Arena is still under construction, Please check back
another time.</p>

<p align="center">Thank you for your support</p>

<p align="center"><a href="http://www.tarakji.net/logout.php">Logout</a></p>

</body>

</html>

rincewind456 wrote:
Put [man]session_start/man at the very first line of code in each page you want the session to be used in.

Then in your index page you will be able to echo out $POST['username'] like
echo "hello ".$_POST['username'];

rincewind456

1st an apology for giving you the wrong code it should have been $SESSION not $POST.

Line one of your code requires a semi-colon like so

session_start();

BTW you can echo the name anywhere in the HTML script by inserting

<?php echo $_$ESSION['username']; ?>

where you want it to appear within the page.

phpfreek

Hey there ...
bro ... i think you didin't understand what i mean ... i want that when a user logs in, the code will automaticly say hello username, and it's not me who will put the username, i want the script to see the username he logged in from and then say hello to it 😛 ... do u get it now ?🙂

If you can help me with this, i would really appreciate it 🙂
Thanks 😉

rincewind456 wrote:
1st an apology for giving you the wrong code it should have been $SESSION not $POST.

Line one of your code requires a semi-colon like so
session_start();
BTW you can echo the name anywhere in the HTML script by inserting
<?php echo $_$ESSION['username']; ?>
where you want it to appear within the page.

rincewind456

Yes and by using session_start() and the code

<?php echo $_SESSION['username']; ?>

that will happen, if you look at your login page you'll see this

$_SESSION['loginok'] = "ok";
$_SESSION['username'] = "username";
$_SESSION['password'] = "password";
$_SESSION['level'] = $row["user_level"];

change it to this

$_SESSION['loginok'] = "ok";
$_SESSION['username'] = $username;
$_SESSION['password'] = "password";
$_SESSION['level'] = $row["user_level"];

and it will then pass the name entered to the next page as $_SESSION['username']

Gonwee

// Check to see the session variable 'loginok' is set to ok, you could use any other method that works better if you prefer
if ($_SESSION['loginok'] == 'ok') {
    echo "Hello, ".$_SESSION['username']'
}

Is that what you wanted? You can put that where ever in the page you want it.

And like he said you need to put in a variable for username. Otherwise it will always be "username". You might also want to do something with the password session variable. Or comment it out till you use it.

phpfreek

OMG ... it worked 😃😃 ... i can't believe it finaly worked 😃 ...

Now, i have to ask you guys one more question ...

can i set this part of code (( echo $_SESSION['username'] ))as a variable ???

that means i want to set it as $usernamesession , and whenever i want to
print the username, i can simply put print("$usernamesession");

I want to do this for other reasons to

So if you can help me out, please do ...

Thanks again for you help

rincewind456

No all you need to do to print the username in any position is to put

print $_SESSION['username'];

in the text

phpfreek

Hey there ...
Thanks for your reply, i know that all i have to print the username is enter that, but i am asking you if i can set it as a variable not to print the username, but to
be able to print table info from the database using the folowing code :

$query="SELECT * FROM username";

in this code, i must set username as a variable ... don;t u think so ?

if you have an alternative, please feel free to tell me about it ...

I apologize for showering you with questions ... but i have no other options.

rincewind456 wrote:
No all you need to do to print the username in any position is to put
print $_SESSION['username'];
in the text

rincewind456

In this

$query="SELECT * FROM username";

username would be the name of a table within a database.

If you want to get all the details from a database about a user then you could do this

$query = "SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE username = '".$_SESSION['username']."'";

phpfreek

Yes, if u had seen my register page, you would have noticed that for every user that registers, a table with his username will be created ... so when the guy logs in, i want all the fields in the database to be selected, that's why i want to use the folowing code :

$query="SELECT * FROM $username"

But i want to know how i can use the $username from the session ...

Now you get me ? 🙂 ... and can you help me with that ?

I appreciate your help very much and don't know how to thank you :')

rincewind456 wrote:
In this
$query="SELECT * FROM username";
username would be the name of a table within a database.

If you want to get all the details from a database about a user then you could do this
$query = "SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE username = '".$_SESSION['username']."'";

Gonwee

<?php

$query = "select * from username where username='$username'";
$result = mysql_query($query, $dbc);
$row = mysql_fetch_array;

echo $row['username'];

?>

Is that what your looking for?

rincewind456

Then in that case you are almost there with

$query="SELECT * FROM username";

just change it to

$query="SELECT * FROM ".$_SESSION['username'];

phpfreek

😃 ... no, it;s not, but i figured it out myself, anyway, thanks a lot a lot for your help bro ,,, i can say that i coulsn't have completed the project without you !! ...

I will never forget what you did to me ... thanks bro ... wish me good luck with my project ... cya ...

Best Regards;
M.TARAKJI