I need a pop-up chat and php security

[gnawz]

Hi

 

Can someone please help me with my two problems please?

 

 

I have seen lots of code about chats but none is helping me really.

I need to do a chat on my website. This chat should enable individuals chat among themselves; it should however be a poup-up caht like Gmail's or facebook's.

 

 

My other issue is as follows:

 

I have a login section to my site with 3 different access levels.

 

Each user can only see what is at their level after logging in and this works well.

 

However, I need to restrict users from viewing what they shouldn't even if they type the URL.

I mean if a user types a URL into a section where they are not authorised, It should tell them sth like "Yoou nust be logged in to view this area"

 

Can someone help me please?

[MadTechie]

the access level depends on how your current member system works but you could beable to do this via a session

ie

<?php
session_start();
if(!isset($_SESSION['loggedin']))
{
die("you must log in first");
}
?>

 

as for the chat, whats the "problem" can you post your code so far

[MasterACE14]

I don't think he has any code so far  :-\

[MadTechie]

Me either.. i that case it should be in the freelance section.. but i like to check first

[gnawz]

Hi

 

The security I need is to stop users from viewing a page when they type its link in the address bar.

eg http://localhost/site/memberarea.php

If this page is only viewable after logging in, one should not be able to see it even if one just types that URL.

They should get a message forbidding them from viewing the file.

[MadTechie]

See my last post

 

the access level depends on how your current member system works but you could beable to do this via a session

ie

<?php
session_start();
if(!isset($_SESSION['loggedin']))
{
die("you must log in first");
}
?>

 

as for the chat, whats the "problem" can you post your code so far

[gnawz]

Thanks.

 

I used this function...

<?

function checkUser()

{

// if the session id is not set, redirect to login page

if (!isset($_SESSION['UserID']))

{

header('Location: ' . WEB_ROOT . 'admin/login.php');

exit;

}

?>

 

where UserID id the user's ID in the database then I call the function at the top of every page I do not want to be seen before logging in.

 

 

For the chat,

I have alot of code for chat some of which is open source.

 

What I want is to have a pop-p chat like the one of gmail of facebook.

 

I need help on how to go about it.

 

The same principle, I need to use as follows:

 

I want a user to to alerted by a popup when a record hits the database, eg a record has been added or some one has logged in.

 

Like when someone logs in to a chat then a pop-up appears to members who are logged in that someone has logged in.

 

Any way to do that?

[deadlyp99]

You are going to need to learn a decent amount of javascript and html/css to do the pop up.

You will be using css layers and javascript for the most part.

 

If you want the messages to pop in real-time, you are going to need to invest a considerable amount of time learning ajax.

 

Alternativly, and my reccomendation because you don't have the knowledge for what your trying to do, is to start out with a check in php on the page, that checks for new messages on a new page load.

 

The very first thing you need to do is work on those login levels, then work towards make a chat, don't even touch the pop-up idea untill you code a decent chat you can use.

 

This will take a few days for constant coding, but don't give up, you'll get it.

[gnawz]

 

 

I know CSS, HTML and some AJAX

 

I will take my time to learn.