Can you accomplish this without having the user logged in? I am unconcerned with whether or not the user has logged in, I simply need the user to not be able to bypass a page with a form to go directly to the end page which will connect and store the form contents into a db. Thanks in advance, Jas "Lerp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi there :) I use session variables to do this, once the user has logged in > and you know they are who they say they are, set a session variable using > > session_register("isloggedin"); > $isloggedin = "yes"; > > > And at the top of every page you want protected simply do a check to see if > it is set or not. Below code checks to see if that var is set and if not it > redirects them to another page. > > <?php session_start(); ?> > <?php > > if (!isset($HTTP_SESSION_VARS["islogged"])){ > > header("Location:index.php"); > } > > ?> > > > Hope this helps, Joe :) > > > "Jas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > I am wondering if there is a good tutorial on how to use php to make users > > come from a page before they can access another. For instance, say you > have > > one page called index.php which contains a form that once filled in links > to > > a confirmation page to verify the users data was entered correctly then > from > > there links to a page that stores the users data into a database table. > The > > problem I would like to alleviate is to make sure the users cannot just > type > > in the name of the last page in the url and put a blank entry into the > > database. I have read a few tutorials on using sessions but I am unclear > on > > how the use of sessions would require the user to visit each page in > > succession. Thanks in advance, > > Jas > > > > > >
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