fife Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Ok. I asked this question yesterday and got many good answers. I have done what i was told but it still does note seem to work. I am trying to make my page display only the name of the person who logged in. Here i will post the full code i have. Can somebody please tell me why when i open the page it displays $username instead of the actual persons name who logged in!?! Learning PHP on your own is proving very difficult!!! <?php include(mydatabasename.php'); ?> <?php if (!isset($_SESSION)) { session_start(); } $username = $_SESSION['MM_Username']; $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; } $MM_restrictGoTo = "mynextpage.php"; if (!((isset($_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: ". $MM_restrictGoTo); exit; } ?> <html> <body> <?php echo '$username'; ?> </body> </html> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/113553-displaying-only-the-persons-name-whos-logged-in/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
john-formby Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 <?php echo '$username'; ?> should be: <?php echo $username; ?> by adding ' ' you are making it a text string Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/113553-displaying-only-the-persons-name-whos-logged-in/#findComment-583430 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fife Posted July 7, 2008 Author Share Posted July 7, 2008 OK brill thank you. Simple mistakes are always the best. I just could not see it! Now further to this question i want to display say someone last name. The field header is lastname, do i simply add $lastname = $_SESSION['MM_lastname']; next to $username = $_SESSION['MM_Username']; Or is it far more difficult than that? If so anybody know anywhere i can find the information i need? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/113553-displaying-only-the-persons-name-whos-logged-in/#findComment-583435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
john-formby Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 Are you are storing the lastname in a session? If you are, you can add: $lastname = $_SESSION['MM_lastname']; below: $username = $_SESSION['MM_Username']; Then if you want to echo it out, you can use: <?php echo $username.' '.$lastname; ?> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/113553-displaying-only-the-persons-name-whos-logged-in/#findComment-583452 Share on other sites More sharing options...
john-formby Posted July 7, 2008 Share Posted July 7, 2008 If you are not storing lastname in a session, you could add a query like: $sql = mysql_query("SELECT MM_lastname FROM tblusers WHERE MM_Username = '$username'"); $row = mysql_fetch_array($sql); echo $row['MM_lastname']; Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/113553-displaying-only-the-persons-name-whos-logged-in/#findComment-583455 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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