[PHP] Re: setting up a user login with PHP

2001-12-10 Thread Jeremy Reed 

The easiest way is to use cookies.
=CODE
?php
require 'auth_functions.php';
if (authenticateUser($form_username, $form_password)){
   setcookie(cookie_passwd,$form_password);
   setcookie(cookie_user,$form_username);
   header(Location:http://$SERVER/index2.php;);
   exit();
} else {
header(Location:http://$SERVER/error.html;);
}
?

This code takes in input from a form as simple as this:
form name=form1 method=post action=index.php
  Login: input type=text name=form_usernamebr
  Password:
  input type=password name=form_password br
  input type=submit name=Submit value=Login
/form
Checks it against the database values using the function 'authenticateUser',
returns TRUE or FALSE.
If true, sends the user onto the correct page, if false, sends them to some
error page.

Now, in each other file, you'll need to check the cookies.  The values for
the cookies are sent automatically by the user's browser.  In this
particular examples, the cookie variables are named '$cookie_user' and
'$cookie_passwd'.  You can see in the example how those are set.

You will check the cookies using the exact same 'authenticateUser' function.
Except in these files, you will use the cookie values as the parameters to
the function instead of the form values.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jeremy Reed

Mark Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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 I've got a mySQL database with usernames and passwords. What's the best
way
 to allow authorized users to enter my site? I'm having some problems using
 the forms properly, they've always been my achilles heel when it comes to
 web programming. Any help is appreciated.

 Mark Ward




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Re: [PHP] Re: setting up a user login with PHP

2001-12-10 Thread py 

or you could use:
http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html/package/288
py


At 01:08 PM 12/10/01 -0500, Jeremy Reed wrote:
The easiest way is to use cookies.
=CODE
?php
require 'auth_functions.php';
if (authenticateUser($form_username, $form_password)){
setcookie(cookie_passwd,$form_password);
setcookie(cookie_user,$form_username);
header(Location:http://$SERVER/index2.php;);
exit();
} else {
header(Location:http://$SERVER/error.html;);
}
?

This code takes in input from a form as simple as this:
form name=form1 method=post action=index.php
   Login: input type=text name=form_usernamebr
   Password:
   input type=password name=form_password br
   input type=submit name=Submit value=Login
/form
Checks it against the database values using the function 'authenticateUser',
returns TRUE or FALSE.
If true, sends the user onto the correct page, if false, sends them to some
error page.

Now, in each other file, you'll need to check the cookies.  The values for
the cookies are sent automatically by the user's browser.  In this
particular examples, the cookie variables are named '$cookie_user' and
'$cookie_passwd'.  You can see in the example how those are set.

You will check the cookies using the exact same 'authenticateUser' function.
Except in these files, you will use the cookie values as the parameters to
the function instead of the form values.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jeremy Reed

Mark Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
  I've got a mySQL database with usernames and passwords. What's the best
way
  to allow authorized users to enter my site? I'm having some problems using
  the forms properly, they've always been my achilles heel when it comes to
  web programming. Any help is appreciated.
 
  Mark Ward
 



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