New to PHP need a little help with member scripts.

[Josh Connerty]

Hey guys a found a tutorial on this site for membership scripts.

I felt brave so I re wrote them and added a little more validation to them the problem I have is after you have logged in and it redirects you the the index.php how do I display information held by the database for the logged in user?

Sorry for the noobie question but I now very little PHP.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks as always.
Josh Connerty.

[goughy000]

Is this the tutorial you are referring to?

http://byteforums.com/thread-390.html

depending on how much you have re-wrote it is going to change my answer.

If you post your new code i'd be happy to read through it and answer your question the best i can

PS Welcome to the forums!

[Josh Connerty]

I'd prefer not to post the code as it is really long but, I haven't changed it as such just added validation to it and changed the errors to refer to an error document as apose to just echoing out text.

So the main code is exactly the same but when I get back to my index.php I put an if statement followed by an else statement and this says it was logged in.

This code is as follows

Code:

<?php
            if (isset($_SESSION['username'])) {
                @include("login.php");
            } else {
                echo "You are logged in as";
                echo "&nbsp;";
                echo $Username;
            }
            
            ?>

I also tried:

Code:

<?php
            if (isset($_SESSION['username'])) {
                @include("login.php");
            } else {
                echo "You are logged in as";
                echo "&nbsp;";
                echo $_SESSION['username'];
            }
            
            ?>

But neither worked if you want to see the code working then go to here.

I've it is vital that I post the documents than I shall.

Thanks as always,
Josh Connerty.

P.S. Thanks buddy.

[goughy000]

think of your logic

your doing "if the user is logged in then ask them to login"

"else (ie there not logged in) tell them there logged in"


see what i mean?

what you should be doing is the opposite, you can make this simple change with 1 character

instead of if(isset(.....

add the ! character which means "not" in a sense,

so it becomes

if(!isset(...

so then your logic is

"if username NOT set then they are not logged in thus show the login form" etc

[xBPM07x]

Ah, another satisfied customer member.

[Josh Connerty]

Sorry I didn't get back to you guys,

My PC broke and then I din't have time so I did fix it like goughy said.

And also I have moved on alot more now (beleive it or not).

Thanks for the help