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sharpdust

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In the tutorial "Creating a Membership System". To check if a user is logged in or not they check to see if the session first_name variable matches.

[code]function session_checker(){
if(!session_is_registered('first_name')){
include 'login_form.html';
exit();
} [/code]

Is this really secure? Wouldn't it better to check if the user has the right username or better, the right userid #?
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Of course that's infinitely more secure. I suggest you hash both the user id and the password in the session using md5 (for the password I think yyou should md5() it twice). Then for each page you compare the user name and the password with the ones in the session before you do anything.
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