Members Only

[dean7]

Hi all, for my website i have a members area only which on members can veiw, but at the moment anyone can veiw them pages. Is there any way in which i can stop them veiwing the page without registering?

 

Thanks

[waynew]

How do you know if a person is logged in or not? Are you using sessions? If not, you should be looking into sessions.

[dean7]

Well at the moment im useing $logged['username']. But ive tryed:

 

if ($logged['username'] = '')
{
echo ("Your Not Logged In!"); 
}else{
echo ("Welcome $logged['username']");

 

But that didnt seem to work

[Jnerocorp]

try one of these maybe im not an expert but but i know some php

 

if ($logged['username'] == '')
{
echo ("Your Not Logged In!"); 
}else{
echo ("Welcome $logged['username']");

 

if ($_SESSION['username'] == '')
{
echo ("Your Not Logged In!"); 
}else{
echo ("Welcome $_SESSION['username']");

[dean7]

if ($logged['username'] == '')
{
echo ("Your Not Logged In!");
}else{
echo ("Welcome $logged['username']");

 

Worked thanks, But now the users that arnt logged in carnt see the members area, but the users who logged in carnt see it either. It just shows a blank white screen.

[Jnerocorp]

<?php


if ($logged['username'] == '')
{

//Put stuff in here the the users who are not logged in will see

echo "Your not logged in ... login now!";


}else{

//Put stuff in here the the users who are logged in will see

$username = $logged['username'];

echo "You are logged in $username welcome to the private area";
?>

<b> You can put html between "? >" and "< ?php" </b>

<?php
}
?>

 

You need to put the content that the logged in user can see between the "else {

 

}"

 

 

[dean7]

It still shows the white page :S

[Jnerocorp]

ok I just thought of a simpler way of doing this use this code

 

if(isset($logged['username'])) {
$username = $logged['username'];
//Display stuff here that logged in users will see

echo "Welcome to the logged in area $username";

}

 

also post your page code so I can see it

 

-John

[waynew]

When a person logs in, you have to give them a session variable. So, once they've entered a correct username and password, you could do this:

 

$_SESSION['username'] = $username_from_db;

 

Then on protected pages, check to see if the session variable 'username' exists:

 

if(!isset($_SESSION['username'])){
    header('Location: login.php');
    exit;
}