Tohou

Read most of the replies here, as it seems people are really using weird methods when it comes to multi-user login/user stuff, instead of adding on to this weird stuff, You should write your own class. It's pretty simple DB: username, password, time, session, logged, ip on login set unique session id and ip set session code to cookie and DB, set ip to DB on page view, check cookies, match session and users ip with DB entry set particular $_SESSION ie: $_SESSION['user_logged'] to true and $_SESSION['username'] to Cookie value if $_SESSION['user_logged'] allow access Use $_SESSION['username'] to determine users actual username. Pretty simple. If sessions aren't cool set them with class functions ie: class system { function loaditbish($user,$logged) { $this->logged = $logged; $this->user = $user; } } $sys = new system; $sys->loaditbish($user,$logged); if ($sys->logged == true) echo 'Happy crazy fun time';

Well Japanese is actually easier (I have learn-japanese manuals), the manual I have lists all known last names in Japan, or ones most commonly used, some how you can parse through a database to see which names match it. But that's a whole lot more to do then just adding another column to your db. So it's possible, just not logical, reliable and makes more db requests than needed lol

Good question, logic thrown out by Bill Gates again!

Sorry for posting in an old topic, I think the issue here is with crappy developers being too lazy to actually use PHP in a way that makes it less work for the end-user, but even sites like Facebook do the same thing, it's mostly because of what they're use to, I can understand Facebook because they do a lot of things socially with last names and it would save time(less code written) in their future apps. But if you use a code like this it doesn't matter: <?php //Say Tohno Robert William Shefford is posted $name = (isset($_POST['name'])) ? htmlspecialchars($_POST['name'], ENT_QUOTES) : NULL; if ($name != NULL) { $data = explode(" ", $name); //Getting numbers of array pieces $rows = count($data,0) - 1; $lname = $data[$rows]; // This means it grabs the last portion. echo 'Hello, Mr.' . $lname; } else echo 'No name given'; ?> Returns: "Hello, Mr.Shefford"

Unfortunately I'm back to square one, but have an easier way to debug it now. I had to set the private $cookie; to public $cookie so it wouldn't error and display it's contents even though it was blank. Here is the code I used to debug: code:<?php echo $myclass->getCookieData($myclass->safe_name); ?> <br> user:<?php echo $myclass->getCookieData($myclass->uservar); ?><br> debug:<br> <?php print_r($_COOKIE); ?><br><br> Value of $_COOKIE[$myclass->safe_name] <?php echo $_COOKIE[$myclass->safe_name]; ?><br> Value of $_COOKIE[$myclass->uservar] <?php echo $_COOKIE[$myclass->uservar]; ?><br> Value of $this->cookie / $myclass->cookie <?php echo $myclass->cookie; ?> Using your code exactly: public function setCookieVal($cookie) { $this->cookie = $cookie; } public function getCookieData($key) { if(strlen($this->cookie[$key])) { return $this->cookie[$key]; } return false; } After class and before content the following is done: $myclass = new myclass; $myclass->loadsettings(); require_once('security/security.php'); require_once('functions.php'); //Need to know what to do with each act=? $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; $myclass->clean_keys(); $myclass->setCookieVal($_COOKIE); $myclass->check_key($myclass->getCookieData($myclass->safe_name), $myclass->getCookieData($myclass->uservar)); Response: code: user: debug: Array ( [mysite] => 4dcb1aea009c60a3e65a631227b39358 [mysite_username] => Alex [phpSESSID] => 324mi79tdk8felthjd7rpmlgr5 ) Value of $_COOKIE[$myclass->safe_name] 4dcb1aea009c60a3e65a631227b39358 Value of $_COOKIE[$myclass->uservar] Alex Value of $this->cookie / $myclass->cookie ^ Blank cannot be possible, but it is, and it's needed in order for this check_key() function to work. Oops, I think it's my fault.. lol yep The page is loading just before the cookie loading.. -Solved - New Response: Welcome to the home page. code:4dcb1aea009c60a3e65a631227b39358 user:Alex debug: Array ( [mysite] => 4dcb1aea009c60a3e65a631227b39358 [mysite_username] => Alex [phpSESSID] => 324mi79tdk8felthjd7rpmlgr5 ) Value of $_COOKIE[$myclass->safe_name] 4dcb1aea009c60a3e65a631227b39358 Value of $_COOKIE[$myclass->uservar] Alex Value of $this->cookie / $myclass->cookie Array Hello Alex

Thanks neil, and yeah I was just testing the global, I should of known better, but I was at my wits end, I've been fumbling on this problem for 48 hours, I came here because I was starting to doubt myself as a coder lol I understand what I was missing, I need to learn more about public, private and etc settings for vars and functions. Thanks for the "don't be stupid" slap PFM, I needed it. lol

Hey everybody, my issue seems unique on it's own, so I'm posting here, I have about 2 years PHP experience and do code as a hobby and profession now. Anyways, it's not about me it's about my problem. lol See, I've made a secure login system, login is okay, cookies get set, I can return the settings inside the cookies. But I can't use it inside a class function and set a class variable with it, I'll write up here a small example because my code is huge, if I put it here it'd flood you guys out, so I'll make it simple. class myclass { function loadsettings() { include('config.php'); $this->settings = &$settings; // Set specifics $this->site_name = &$settings['site_name']; $this->mysql_host = &$settings['mysql_host']; $this->mysql_user = &$settings['mysql_user']; $this->mysql_pass = &$settings['mysql_pass']; $this->mysql_db = &$settings['mysql_db']; $this->mssql_host = &$settings['mssql_host']; $this->mssql_user = &$settings['mssql_user']; $this->mssql_pass = &$settings['mssql_pass']; $this->theme = &$settings['site_theme']; $this->desc = &$settings['site_desc']; $this->srv_ip = &$settings['srv_ip']; $this->salt = &$settings['salt']; $this->safe_name = &$settings['site_safe_name']; $this->uservar = &$settings['site_user_cookie']; global $_COOKIE; $this->COOKIE = $_COOKIE; //Time to test the Mysql nasties $link = mysql_connect($this->mysql_host, $this->mysql_user, $this->mysql_pass) or die("No mysql connection available."); $db = mysql_select_db($this->mysql_db) or die("Database doesn't exist"); mysql_close($link); } function create_key($user) { $time = time(); $md5code = md5(rand(1, 99) . $ip . $this->safe_name . rand(1, 99) . $time); $link = mysql_connect($this->mysql_host, $this->mysql_user, $this->mysql_pass) or die(mysql_error()); $db = mysql_select_db($this->mysql_db) or die('Couldn\'t link to MySQL DB'); $sql = "insert into cookies (code, username, time) values ('" . $md5code . "', '" . $user . "', '" . $time . "')"; mysql_query($sql) or die("Error executing cookie command."); setcookie($this->safe_name, $md5code, time() + 3600); setcookie($this->uservar, $user, time() + 3600); } function check_key () { $user = $this->COOKIE[$this->uservar]; $key = $this->COOKIE[$this->safe_name]; $link = mysql_connect($this->mysql_host, $this->mysql_user, $this->mysql_pass) or die(mysql_error()); $db = mysql_select_db($this->mysql_db) or die('Couldn\'t link to MySQL DB'); $sql = "SELECT * FROM `cookies` WHERE `code` = '" . $key . "' AND `username` = '" . $user . "'"; $result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error()); if ($result) { $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); $this->logged = true; $this->username = $user; } else $this->logged == false; $debug = 'Key: ' . $key . 'User: ' . $user; return $debug; } function clean_keys() { $link = @mysql_connect($this->mysql_host, $this->mysql_user, $this->mysql_pass) or die(mysql_error()); $db = @mysql_select_db($this->mysql_db) or die('Couldn\'t link to MySQL DB'); $query = "select * from cookies"; $result = mysql_query($query); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $oldtime = $row['time']; $time = time(); $diff = $this->date_diff($time, $oldtime); if ($diff['hours'] > 1) { $sql = "delete from cookies where id='" . $row['id'] . "'"; mysql_query($sql); } } mysql_close($link); } } $debug Returns Key: (blank) User: (Blank) in my debugging. It's getting this part: function check_key () { $user = $this->COOKIE[$this->uservar]; $key = $this->COOKIE[$this->safe_name]; $link = mysql_connect($this->mysql_host, $this->mysql_user, $this->mysql_pass) or die(mysql_error()); $db = mysql_select_db($this->mysql_db) or die('Couldn\'t link to MySQL DB'); $sql = "SELECT * FROM `cookies` WHERE `code` = '" . $key . "' AND `username` = '" . $user . "'"; $result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error()); if ($result) { $row = mysql_fetch_array($result); $this->logged = true; $this->username = $user; } To output the user variable which would be their username. Even key doesn't come up. In my check_key code it needs fixed for mysql_num_rows, I know that so just ignore that part, it's for debugging and getting it to actually use the $_COOKIE var.