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[allcamchat]

I am attempting to block certain pages of my site to registered members only.  I'm new to php and a college student.  My site is www.allcamchat.com , could someone give me advice on how to do this simply.  As you can see I already have join and login generated.  I did that on my own.  Just not sure if it would be an include once or what for like My Matrix.  Thank you all for time spent on me.  Also I work on a very limited budget, so downloading random programs wouldn't be an answer.

 

AllCamChat

[-Karl-]

Since you have a database, with registered users and a login form, all you need to do is create a function to make sessions when a user logs in sucessfully.

[jcbones]

Log in Process

session_start();
if(isset($_POST['login'])) {
$user = mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags($_POST['login']));
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE `username` = '$user'";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
if(mysql_num_rows($result) == 1) {
$_SESSION['loggedin'] = 1;
}
else {
$_SESSION['loggedin'] = 0;
}
}

function protectPage() {
if($_SESSION['loggedin'] == 1) {
return;
}
else {
header('Status: 200');
header('Location: http://mysite.com/login.php');
exit();
}
return;
}

 

Protected Page

<?php
session_start();
protectPage();
?>

 

Or, something along those lines.