Intergrating A PHP Login Script

mcdof001

Hi,

I am having a little trouble intergrating a login / user management script with my html pages. I have used the div tag put in my php in there and put the rest of the php where it is originally placed in the script. Here is my problem. I would like my user to stay on the same main page while the login part changes (goes to the members area). I have tried using i-frames but if there is a link in one, the main page does not change the i-frame does. Can this be solved with more php. I do not want my user to have to go back to the index page as soon as they login. If anybody understands what I'm saying please can you help me out. 😕

P.S If you would like to see my source code just ask. It's probably something simple, and I'm being an idiot. Sorry for my lack of PHP knowledge. I'm learning. 🙂

mcdsoftware

If I'm not misunderstanding, what you want is your user to be able to land back at your index.php page without them clicking in links. After they try to log on you could redirect them back to index.php by using header();

Example:

header('Location: index.php');

Hope this helps you 🙂

Then you could dynamically change what the login box used to say to user-control links based on their session/cookies.

If I'm misunderstanding you, would you put up your source code so I can take a look and try to figure out what you mean?

mcdof001

Its kinda what I meant, but instead I want the user to STAY on the same page, while the login bit changes. Anyway, I found a way using i-frames using window.parent.ahref or something like that. Thanks for your awnsers. Although I do still have 1 problem. As I have been editing the script, on the login page, a 0 now pops up in a table that was previously blank, that is filled with the result of the registration, ie. the errors. Here is my source code :- 🙂

<?php
require_once('common.php');

$error = '0';

if (isset($_POST['submitBtn'])){
	// Get user input
	$username = isset($_POST['username']) ? $_POST['username'] : '';
	$password = isset($_POST['password']) ? $_POST['password'] : '';

// Try to login the user
$error = loginUser($username,$password);
}

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
   <title>CRAP TV</title>
   <style type="text/css">
<!--
.style1 {color: #FFFFFF}
body {
	background-color: #000000;
}
.style2 {color: #000000}
-->
   </style>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /></head>
<body link="#FFFFFF">
<?php if ($error != '') {?>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post" name="loginform">
        <table width="300" align="center">
          <tr><td><span class="style1">Username:</span></td>
          <td> <input class="text" name="username" type="text"  /></td></tr>
          <tr><td><span class="style1">Password:</span></td>
          <td> <input class="text" name="password" type="password" /></td></tr>
          <tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><input class="text" type="submit" name="submitBtn" value="Login" /></td></tr>
   <div align="center"><a href="register.php">Register</a>
      </div>
  </table>  

</form>       

      <?php            

    }
?>    


<?php 
    if (isset($_POST['submitBtn'])){
?>
      <?php            

    }
?>      

<div id="result">
  <table width="100%" align="center">
    <tr><td class="style1"><div align="center"><span class="style2"><br/>
          <?php
	if ($error == '') {
		echo "Welcome $username! <br/>You are logged in!<br/><br/>";
		echo '<a href="main.php">Click here to enter!</a>';
	}
	else echo $error;
?>
          </span><br/>
      <br/>
      <br/>
    </div></td></tr></table>
</body>
</html>