Display different section depending on session status

nolam

Hey!

I have a full user authentication system set up and it's working great, but on my index.php I want to show "Hello! Please login or create an account" below the header if someone isn't logged in, and "Hello ['MM_Username']! Log out - Change account settings" (with links to the respecting).

I'm trying to use "show if recordset is/is not empty", but for some reason even after logging out, on the homepage it still says "Hello (myusername)..."

This is my code in the header:

<?php if ($totalRows_getuserName > 0) { // Show if recordset not empty ?>
        Hello, <?php echo $row_getuserName['userName']; ?>! Change account settings, or <a href="logout.php">log out?</a>
        <?php } // Show if recordset not empty ?>
  <?php if ($totalRows_getuserName == 0) { // Show if recordset empty ?>
    Hello! Please <a href="login.php">log in</a> or <a href="register.php">register</a> to get started!
    <?php } // Show if recordset empty ?>

And this is the definition for the username (I'm using the simple recordset tool)

mysql_select_db($database_UserDatabase, $UserDatabase);
$query_getuserName = "SELECT userName FROM users";
$getuserName = mysql_query($query_getuserName, $UserDatabase) or die(mysql_error());
$row_getuserName = mysql_fetch_assoc($getuserName);
$totalRows_getuserName = mysql_num_rows($getuserName);

nolam

(P.S. [couldn't find an edit button] I think it would be better to use the Session tags, but I'm a super noob at this and don't know how I could set it to display only if one's session were active.

Thanks again!)

dagon

you're checking to see if they exist in the user table, not if they are logged in\out which are two different things.

nolam

dagon;10989077 wrote:
you're checking to see if they exist in the user table, not if they are logged in\out which are two different things.

Ohhh alright. Any idea on what script I should use then?

dagon

check, what ever you use to determine some one is currently logged in or not.

NotSoWhiteNite

I used session variables, $SESSION['state'] and a function, loadPage().
loadPage() is simply a switch statement.

switch($_SESSION['state']){
case 0:
echo("state is 0");
break;
case 1:
echo("state is 1");
break;}

I simply set the state, for example, after a successful registration, to the appropriate status.
Then I call the loadPage(); function.