Auth - 'Logged in as ****'

[Anon]

Hi every1
i am using the auth login screen connected to a my sql database. I am wondering how i can put a sign on my pages saying something like "Logged in as *******" perhaps by extracting the password forld from the cookie it sets? Any ideas?

Thanx

Jonathan

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Simple: when the user logs in, set a cookie with his username.
Then in all the other pages you can read the cookie and print the name.

[Anon]

hmmmm, im not tooo good at cookies, how can this be done? i have also heard that cookies are not multi browser compatible and they can be insecure? is this true? Can you give me an example of code to work on?

Thanx!

Jonathan

[Anon]

Hi,

how to set a cookie:
setcookie('username','frank');

you can read it like normal variable eg:
echo "Username: $username";

But beware, this is not secure!
The User could modify his cookies so you can not be sure, that the username is valid.

I do the following, i have a user table in my db which stores a session ID for a logged in user.
This ID is stored as a cookie or added to every html link
eg a href=www.abc.de?sid=123456789
When i want to display the username i query the database for the current sid and thats it 🙂

Simon

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"But beware, this is not secure!
The User could modify his cookies so you can not be sure, that the username is valid"

True, but in the case of the username this is completely irrelevant because the username is only displayed to the user himself.

[Anon]

What do you think of session's

" session_start(); "