But please do not use cookies to store a password as code! Cookies are human
readable with some add-ons
Check like this:
if someone registers, insert it into a table:
Then, if someone wants to log in, use like this:
If you want to store something into cookies, use a name which is not good
understandable, like a shortcut for a logical sentense:
Titcftmws ("This is the cookie for the main webSite") or something ^^
In there, you can save username and password, but PLEASE save the password at
least md5()-encryptet, so not everyone can save it.
Now you can check like this:
This is as far as I know a quite high level of security, in comparisions with
other ways.
Regs, Flo
> From: midhungir...@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 08:20:11 +0530
> To: wilp...@me.com
> CC: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] saving sessions
>
> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 7:56 AM, wil prim wrote:
>
> > Hello, im new to the whole storing sessions thing and I really dont know
> > how to ask this question, but here it goes. So on my site when someone logs
> > in the login.php file checks for a the username and password in the table i
> > created, then if it finds a match it will store a $_SESSION [] variable. To
> > be exact the code is as follows:
> > if ($count=='1')
> > {
> > session_start();
> > $_SESSION['user']=$user; // $user is the $_POST['user'] from the login
> > form
> > header('location: login_success.php');
> > }
> >
> > Now what i would like to know is how do i make my website save new changes
> > the user made while in their account?
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> >
>
> You will have to store the user account related data in the database for
> persistence Or if the site not having a 'user account system' you may
> use cookies to store the settings...
>
>
>
> Midhun Girish
