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Hello.

 

I am coding a remember me feature. Everything is working, except i am being logged in using cookies even when i want to use a session.

 

To login using a cookie i must select the checkbox, for sessions i must leave it blank.

 

Here is my code, if someone could spot a mistake i would be really grateful.

 

Login page


<?php

ob_start();

// starting session...
session_start();

// requiring connection...
require("functions.php");



// assigning variables...
$username = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['username']);
$password = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['password']);
$submit = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['submit']);
$rememberme = $_POST['rememberme'];

// querying database...
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = '$username'");
$numrows = mysql_num_rows($query);

if ($numrows != 0)
{
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query))
{
	$db_username = $row['username'];
	$db_password = $row['password'];
}
}

// verifying login details...
if ($submit)
{
if (!empty($username) && !empty($password))
{
	if ($username == $db_username && $password == $db_password)
	{
		if ($rememberme = "on")
		{
			setcookie("username", $username, time() + 7200);
	        header('Location: tablets.php');
		}
		else
		{
	        $_SESSION['username'] = $db_username;
	        $url = $_SESSION['origin'] ? $_SESSION['origin'] : "main.php"; 
            unset($_SESSION['origin']);
            header('Location: ' . $url);
            exit;
		}		
	}
	else
	{
		echo "Incorrect login details";
	}
}
else
{
	echo "You must type in username and password";
}
}


ob_end_flush();

?>

 

Login form

<?php

session_start();

require("connect.php");

if (isset($_SESSION['username']) || isset($_COOKIE['username']))
{
header('Location: main.php');
}

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Login</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="form.css" />

</head>
<body>




<form method="post" action="login.php">
<div class="box"> 
<h1>Login</h1>
<label>
<span>Username</span>
<input type="text" class="input_text" name="username" id="name" />  
</label>
<label>
<span>Password</span>
<input type="password" class="input_text" name="password" id="password" /> 
</label>
<input type="checkbox" name="rememberme" />
<label>
<input type="submit" class="button" value="Login" name="submit" /> 
</label>
</div>
</form>




</body>
</html>

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I think you missed the point. You were using $rememberme = "on" with one equal sign, which is an assignment operator - instead of two equal signs which is the comparison operator.

 

Besides the usual way to identify if a checkbox was checked is simply isset(). In many cases (such as this one) the value of the checkbox really is not important.

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