Hi,
I am coding a community site and am, (once again) experimenting with a
user system.
Currently I have a user class that checks the user's username and
password with the database and returns them to a login script (with the
password md5 encoded). The login script then registers these (password
and username) variables using session_register().
My aim is to keep the user logged in indefinitely, until they logout;
using the appropriate function.
During my experimentation, I have tried session_set_cookie_params() - to
no avail. I then reverted to saving the username, password and session
id in a cookie and then checking for these, like so:
<?PHP
session_start();
//get all the extra files needed for every page.
include('dbinfo.inc');
include('database.class.php');
include('user.class.php');
//login check
if(IsSet($_COOKIE['cookie_username']) &&
IsSet($_COOKIE['cookie_password'])){
$localuser = new userclass();
$localuser->setup($dbserver,$dbuser,$dbpass,$dbname);
$localuser->connect();
$username = $_COOKIE['cookie_username'];
$password = $_COOKIE['cookie_password'];
$localuser->check_user($username, $password);// check function
if($localuser->check){// returned true from the user class if username
and md5 hash match with those in the database
$s_id = $_COOKIE['cookie_session'];
session_id($s_id);
session_register('username');
session_register('password');
$login = true;
}
else{
$login = false;
}
}
else{
$login = false;
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>test login</title>
</head>
<body>
<?PHP
$username = $_SESSION['username'];
$password = $_SESSION['password'];
echo"<b>Login</b> = $login <br>";
echo"<b>Username:</b> $username <br>";
echo"<b>Password:</b> $password <br>";
echo"<b>Session ID:</b>";
print(session_id());
?>
The above code gives the following:
Login = 1
Username:
Password:
Session ID:95a607dc349f91b2a08c8533538b8694
Clearly, the login returns true and the session id has been used, but
the password and username have not been registered. I have been playing
around with this for a while now, and am a little stuck.
Any help would be brilliant.
Thanks in advance.
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Kieran Hall
