Creating a session

[3raser]

Alright, I know how to make sessions. But, I want to make a session that allows me to stop users from voting for a site for another 1 hour and then the session goes away. How would I be able to do that?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

That's not something you could do with a session. All the person would need to do is drop the session id and get a new session and they could vote again.

 

To do what you state would require that you remember the last time they voted using a database of some kind (mysql, flat-file...)

[3raser]

That's not something you could do with a session. All the person would need to do is drop the session id and get a new session and they could vote again.

 

To do what you state would require that you remember the last time they voted using a database of some kind (mysql, flat-file...)

 

I can do that, but my question is, how? I have more then one voting things. http://www.webmasters.webatu.com - How do I store IP's in just one row?...

[trq]

That's not something you could do with a session. All the person would need to do is drop the session id and get a new session and they could vote again.

 

To do what you state would require that you remember the last time they voted using a database of some kind (mysql, flat-file...)

 

I can do that, but my question is, how? I have more then one voting things. http://www.webmasters.webatu.com - How do I store IP's in just one row?...

 

You wouldn't use 1 row. For each poll store an id identifying which poll was voted on, another id identifying the user and a timestamp to see when they last voted.

[3raser]

I SERIOUSLY don't understand what you mean...any examples you could give me?

 

Here is my vote.php page:

 

<?php

require("style.css");

$dbhost = 
$dbuser =
$dbpassword = 
$db = 
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
$pname = $_GET[project];

//connecting to the database
$connect = mysql_connect("$dbhost","$dbuser","$dbpassword") or die("Connection failed!");
mysql_select_db("$db") or die("Database fail!");

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM info WHERE pname='$pname'");

$numrows = mysql_num_rows($query);

if ($numrows!=1)
   die("<content>Project does not exist!</content>");

$points = mysql_query("UPDATE info SET numbers  = numbers + 1 WHERE pname='$pname'");
echo "Voted for $pname! <br /><br />";

?>

Forum BBCode: <br /><br /><textarea rows="10" cols="32">[url=http://"http://www.webmasters.webatu.com/vote.php?project=<?php echo $pname; ?>"][img=http://www.webmasters.webatu.com/testing.php?pname=<?php echo $pname; ?>][/url]</textarea>

[trq]

I SERIOUSLY don't understand what you mean...any examples you could give me?

 

I SERIOUSLY don't know how it could be put any simpler.

[3raser]

I SERIOUSLY think someone else should help then.

[slyte33]

Just create a table in the DB named 'votes', then create these rows:

 

id int 11 auto_increment

users_id int 11

timeleft int 11

 

then select those from the DB where users_id = sessions id they are logged into or whatever

then if timeleft >= time() + 3600;