Successful Login global flag.

[Anon]

Hi Follks

I'm writing an application that requires the user to login to gain access to
the rest of the site.
The login dialog is on index.html, once verified by login.php the user is
presented with a menu from
which he can select several options option1.htm which executes a query
through option1.php etc,
option2.htm and option3.htm and so on. But there's nothing stopping him
from bypassing the login completely
and just brining up option2.htm and executing option2.php directly in the browser. I'm looking for
some kind of mechanism to set a
flag for a successful logon in index.php that can be tested in the other php
scripts.

I tried using a cookie and got that to work but the user can close the
browser, reopen and the cookie is still
set. I looked in to session variables but after the browser closed the variables remained.

I know this has to be a simple exercise but I'm a newbie.

Thanks

John.

[Anon]

check this out:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/snippet/detail.php?type=snippet&id=4

[Anon]

Thanks, but I fail to see how the $LOGGED_IN variable that I could set to TRUE, say for instance in my login.php file when the user has successfully logged in is visible in my query.php file when he invokes it direct through the browser. Global variables are only global within a particular file or am I missing something?

Thanks

John.