Thanks in advance for any help provided for a new user of PHP. I have a login page that brings users to this page displayed below. I would like to display the users first name on the page and use the user ID to insert data back into the database with other data from a form that I have not yet created. I need to keep track of the user that entered the data in the database. The pages were created with server behaviors from Dreamweaver. Where is the user name stored from the login? Thanks again for any help with the code or more information about the user name info. <?php //initialize the session if (!isset($_SESSION)) { session_start(); } // ** Logout the current user. ** $logoutAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?doLogout=true"; if ((isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) && ($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] != "")){ $logoutAction .="&". htmlentities($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']); } if ((isset($_GET['doLogout'])) &&($_GET['doLogout']=="true")){ //to fully log out a visitor we need to clear the session varialbles $_SESSION['MM_Username'] = NULL; $_SESSION['MM_UserGroup'] = NULL; $_SESSION['PrevUrl'] = NULL; unset($_SESSION['MM_Username']); unset($_SESSION['MM_UserGroup']); unset($_SESSION['PrevUrl']); $logoutGoTo = "logoutthankyou.php"; if ($logoutGoTo) { header("Location: $logoutGoTo"); exit; } } ?> <?php if (!isset($_SESSION)) { session_start(); } $MM_authorizedUsers = ""; $MM_donotCheckaccess = "true"; // *** Restrict Access To Page: Grant or deny access to this page function isAuthorized($strUsers, $strGroups, $UserName, $UserGroup) { // For security, start by assuming the visitor is NOT authorized. $isValid = False; // When a visitor has logged into this site, the Session variable MM_Username set equal to their username. // Therefore, we know that a user is NOT logged in if that Session variable is blank. if (!empty($UserName)) { // Besides being logged in, you may restrict access to only certain users based on an ID established when they login. // Parse the strings into arrays. $arrUsers = Explode(",", $strUsers); $arrGroups = Explode(",", $strGroups); if (in_array($UserName, $arrUsers)) { $isValid = true; } // Or, you may restrict access to only certain users based on their username. if (in_array($UserGroup, $arrGroups)) { $isValid = true; } if (($strUsers == "") && true) { $isValid = true; } } return $isValid; } $MM_restrictGoTo = "Pleaselogin.php"; if (!((isset($_SESSION['MM_Username'])) && (isAuthorized("",$MM_authorizedUsers, $_SESSION['MM_Username'], $_SESSION['MM_UserGroup'])))) { $MM_qsChar = "?"; $MM_referrer = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; if (strpos($MM_restrictGoTo, "?")) $MM_qsChar = "&"; if (isset($QUERY_STRING) && strlen($QUERY_STRING) > 0) $MM_referrer .= "?" . $QUERY_STRING; $MM_restrictGoTo = $MM_restrictGoTo. $MM_qsChar . "accesscheck=" . urlencode($MM_referrer); header("Location: ". $MM_restrictGoTo); exit; } ?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Time Entry</title> <link href="BLUE APS.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <p align="center" class="style1">APS</p> <p>Welcome, <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> <a href="<?php echo $logoutAction ?>">Log out</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </body> </html>