newbie help

[rpsep2]

Hello,

Just started creating my first dynamic site for a uni project.

right now i've just got my registration/ login system sorted.

when you navigate to my site, the index.php has a query asking whether a user session is active, if not it loads the login page, if there is it loads the homepage.

at the moment, im using the include''; function. my question is does this just load the file within the current page? because i want to have a way of completely loading the new file/page, but I dont know the syntax for this?

so currently i have:

if(strcmp($_SESSION['uid'],"") == 0){
//no user session, so go to startpage where the login/ register form is
include'./startpage.php';
}else{
include'./home.php';
}

this works but i think its loading the new files within the index.php which I dont want

thanks

[leatherback]

Includes will result in all code from the included file to be inserted at the point where you "include" them.

So is a.php has:

<?php
echo "aaaa";
?>

Then b.php:

<?php

echo "page b. Referring to a:";
include('a.php');

?>

wil result in:

page b. Referring to a:aaaa

I think you would want to user the [man]header[/man] funtion instead.

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As an afterthought.. Why did you not post this in the newbies forum?

[rpsep2]

Thanks! i managed to get part of the system working using the header(); function, as well as the ob_start(); and ob_flush();.

so so far my index.php redirects to either the start/login page if user not logged in or the home page if they are

however, when a user logs in sing the form, I cant get my login.php that the form uses to redirect using this method?

I think its probably an error in my script, could somebody take a look?

<?php
//allow sessions to be passed so we can see if the user is logged in
ob_start();
session_start();



//connect to the database so we can check, edit, or insert data to our users table
$con = mysql_connect('STUFF HERE THAT YOURE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE :P') or die(mysql_error());
$db = mysql_select_db('MORE CENSORED STUFF', $con) or die(mysql_error());

//include out functions file giving us access to the protect() function made earlier
include "./functions.php";


	//If the user has submitted the form
	if($_POST['submit']){
		//protect the posted value then store them to variables
		$username = protect($_POST['username']);
		$password = protect($_POST['password']);

		//Check if the username or password boxes were not filled in
		if(!$username || !$password){
			//if not display an error message
			echo "<center>You need to fill in a <b>Username</b> and a <b>Password</b>!</center>";
		}else{
			//if the were continue checking

			//select all rows from the table where the username matches the one entered by the user
			$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `username` = '".$username."'");
			$num = mysql_num_rows($res);

			//check if there was not a match
			if($num == 0){
				//if not display an error message
				echo "<center>The <b>Username</b> you supplied does not exist!</center>";
			}else{
				//if there was a match continue checking

				//select all rows where the username and password match the ones submitted by the user
				$res = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `username` = '".$username."' AND `password` = '".$password."'");
				$num = mysql_num_rows($res);

				//check if there was not a match
				if($num == 0){
					//if not display error message
					echo "<center>The <b>Password</b> you supplied does not match the one for that username!</center>";
				}else{
					//if there was continue checking

					//split all fields fom the correct row into an associative array
					$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res);

					//check to see if the user has not activated their account yet
					if($row['active'] != 1){
						//if not display error message
						echo "<center>You have not yet <b>Activated</b> your account!</center>";
					}else{
						//if they have log them in

						//set the login session storing there id - we use this to see if they are logged in or not
						$_SESSION['uid'] = $row['id'];
						//show message

			header('location: home.php');ob_end_flush();}}}}}?>