help me with this

Gu3rr1lla

<?php
require_once("Includes/db.php");

$logonSuccess = true;
if($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST"){
    if(FifaDB::getInstance()->verify_login($_POST["user"], $_POST["userpassword"] == 1)){
        session_start();
        $_SESSION["user"] = $_POST["user"];
        header('Location: home.php');
    } else {
        $logonSuccess = false;
    }
}

?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
        <title></title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form name="logon" action="index.php" method="POST" >
            Username: <input type="text" name="user"/>
            Password  <input type="password" name="userpassword"/>
            <?php
            if (!$logonSuccess)
            echo "Invalid name and/or password";
            ?>
            <input type="submit" value="Login"/>
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

In the context of this code, please explain:

if($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST")

and

header('Location: home.php');

Is there alternatives to this? Also, if i want the page to reload the same page after being logged in what would i change in the code to do that?

Thanks 🙂

dagon

Gu3rr1lla;10957593 wrote:
In the context of this code, please explain:
if($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST")

checks if the form has been posted before running the next block of code

Gu3rr1lla;10957593 wrote:
header('Location: home.php');

redirects the user to the url home.php

Gu3rr1lla;10957593 wrote:
Is there alternatives to this?

Don't under stand the question

Gu3rr1lla;10957593 wrote:
Also, if i want the page to reload the same page after being logged in what would i change in the code to do that?

change home.php to the location you want them to be sent to.