RE: [PHP] Question about logins and locking

2010-06-23 Thread Tommy Pham
-Original Message- From: James Colannino [mailto:ja...@colannino.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 10:06 PM To: PHP-General List Subject: Re: [PHP] Question about logins and locking Tommy Pham wrote: 1) Set an encrypted (to prevent hijacking and eavesdropping) cookie

Re: [PHP] Question about logins and locking

2010-06-23 Thread Richard Quadling
On 23 June 2010 07:44, Tommy Pham tommy...@gmail.com wrote: -Original Message- From: James Colannino [mailto:ja...@colannino.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 10:06 PM To: PHP-General List Subject: Re: [PHP] Question about logins and locking Tommy Pham wrote: 1) Set an encrypted

[PHP] Question about logins and locking

2010-06-22 Thread James Colannino
Hey everyone, I have a question about logins. Let's say that I want to allow each user account to login only once at a time. I would then need some kind of locking mechanism to make sure that the same user can't login again somewhere else until first logging off. What's a good way to achieve

RE: [PHP] Question about logins and locking

2010-06-22 Thread Tommy Pham
-Original Message- From: James Colannino [mailto:ja...@colannino.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 2:29 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Question about logins and locking Hey everyone, I have a question about logins. Let's say that I want to allow each user

Re: [PHP] Question about logins and locking

2010-06-22 Thread James Colannino
Tommy Pham wrote: 1) Set an encrypted (to prevent hijacking and eavesdropping) cookie to expire when browser closes 2) Have a table in the DB backend to keep track if the user is logged in or not and when was the last time the validated user access your site (this gets updated when the user