How do I...

[Pi_Mastuh]

I want to make my site save a session so the user doesn't need to login everytime they com to the site. If they've logged in previously I want them to still be login when they go to my site and it will re-direct to a certain page if they're logged in. Anyone know how to do that?

[psychohagis]

when they log-in send a cookie with like [b]autologin=1[/b] if they want to stay logged in forever.

Then  you just need something to request that cookie and if autologin is 1 then set their session. you'll obviosly wanna put their userid and any info you wanna load into sessions in the cookie as well

[Pi_Mastuh]

How do I do that?

[alpine]

You could set a cookie that lasts for a year at a time, so unless the user cleans up his cookies (deletes them) it will be an autologin feature for a year at a time.

Example to set a cookie after login success:
[code]

<?php

if($login_ok) // simplified example
{
// set a cookie that will work for 365 days (one year)
setcookie("user", "Donald Duck", time()+60*60*24*365,"/",".Duckburg_yourdomain.com",0);
}

?>

[/code]

And on your main page, check if this cookie already exists - something like this:
[code]

<?php

if(isset($_COOKIE['user']) && !empty($_COOKIE['user']))
{
  // your cookie is found
  $user = htmlspecialchars($_COOKIE['user'], ENT_QUOTES);
 
  print "Hello {$user}, Welcome back!";
 
  // or redirect
  header("Location: members.php");
  exit();
}
else
{
  // no cookie found matching your check
  print "Hello guest, If you already have an account, please log in first";
}

?>

[/code]

For understanding cookies, use the manual: http://no2.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php

[Pi_Mastuh]

I've got the cookie creating part:

[code]$expire = time()+60*60*24*365; // Expire in 1 year
 
  setcookie("preuserID", "$preuserID", $expire);
  setcookie("preuserPassword", "$password", $expire);

header("Location: ../home.php");
exit;[/code]

and the fetching:

[code]<?
if(isset($_COOKIE['preuserID']) && !empty($_COOKIE[';preuserID']) and
isset($_COOKIE['preuserPassword']) && !empty($_COOKIE[';preuserPassword']))
{
  // your cookie is found
  $preuserID = htmlspecialchars($_COOKIE['preuserID'], ENT_QUOTES);
  $preuserPassword = htmlspecialchars($_COOKIE['preuserPassword'], ENT_QUOTES);

  header(Location: /reg/home.php);
  exit();
}
?>[/code]

which is imbeded in my index.htm, but it's not redirecting. Anyone know why?

[Pi_Mastuh]

???

[alpine]

...missing quotes inside your header call, and it cannot run inside a htm file !

[magic2goodil]

agree on the missing quotes..also depending on how your calling your page, if your get any errors with headers already sent, u may try echoing some javascript to redirect the page..that is worst case though, but alas have had to do it before.

[Pi_Mastuh]

But if Idon't run it on the htm file how do I run it on the homepage?  :-\

[magic2goodil]

lol, i believe he was joking saying you must run php code in a file with .php file extension.

[Pi_Mastuh]

No... PHP can be run in an HTML file as long as it's enclosed by <? and ?>

[Jessica]

Yes, but the file extension must be .php unless you have configured your server to parse .html as php.

[Pi_Mastuh]

Is there a way I can make the index.html file a .php? So when they first go to my site it's a php file?

[Jessica]

Delete your html file and only have a .php file.

Is this your server or hosted? If it's yours you can change the settings, if you're on a shared host, you can't, and you'll have to have just the .php file.
If you search the web for more info, you'll find it.

[Pi_Mastuh]

I have hosting with 1&1

[magic2goodil]

default of any webserver that allows php is to check for index.html, index.htm, and then index.php among others..just copy your code from your .html file, create a file as index.php not index.php.html mind you..and clear any other index.wtfever else there is in that dir and you should be good to go..

[Jessica]

So apply my previous statement...

[magic2goodil]

indeed..sorry i meant to quote u and forgot jesirose

[Pi_Mastuh]

I made the page a php file and added the quotes and it's still not working.

[Jessica]

[b]What[/b]'s not working?

Are you sure the php is running? Add something like echo 'test'; in it to be sure.

[Pi_Mastuh]

what would I echo though?

[magic2goodil]

The word test would have been echoed hence the 'test'

you might want to create a separate file called test.php

put in it:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>

and then run that file to test that your server is even allowing php...who is your hosting service?

[Pi_Mastuh]

1and1, I knwo it allows php because my whole site is PHP

[chronister]

1&1 Linux packages allow PHP, if you have a 1&1 windows package, then ASP is what you can run.

I also use 1&1, using the linux package which is a full on LAMP config. If you have the Windows package, you should be able to swap it to the linux package, thus giving you php & Mysql Access.

Nate

[Jessica]

[quote author=jesirose link=topic=121266.msg498572#msg498572 date=1168131366]
[b]What[/b]'s not working?

Are you sure the php is running? Add something like echo 'test'; in it to be sure.
[/quote]