Relatively easy-ish. <g>. But you'll have to study PHP a bit more.
This is a situation where sessions work really well - read up on them in the manual. Authenticate the user by means of a login page, which establishes the session. Then put something like the following at the top of each page.
<? session_start();
session_register( "origin" );
$origin=$PHP_SELF;
if( $HTTP_SERVER_VARS[ "PHP_AUTH_USER" ] !="lancelot" && $HTTP_SERVER_VARS[ "PHP_AUTH_PW" ] !="grail" ) { if( !session_is_registered( "member_id" ) ) { header("Location: user_logon2.php\n"); } }
All the above was one long strinb in the source, at the very top of the page, ahead of EVERYTHING else. You can ignore the bit about "lancelot" and "grail", that was built-in so that htdig could index the pages. The key bit is this:
if( !session_is_registered( "member_id" ) // note the " ! " which negates the test
If the user is not authenticated, i.e. the member_id does not exist, the user is redirected to the user_logn2.php, otherwise the rerest of the page loads.
Why is this one line at the very top of each member page? Because the header() is function is called and there can be no output at all before that function.
How you authenticate is up to you, but there's a good start, if I remember correctly, at http://www.thickbook.com, or Devshed, Webmonkey, etc. There are a couple of good articles/tutorials on session at those sites as well.
HTH - Miles Thompson
At 11:16 AM 4/4/2003 +0100, Andrew wrote:
How could I have individual pages for each member who registers? (ie) Pages only that member can see.
Would this be easy(ish) to do or should I study PHP a little more first?
Andrew
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