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Hi,

i have a logon page where users enter a password, and user name, and they then get redirected to another web page.  What i want is to make all the pages they visit when logged on secure, presumably using sessions. I am not sure of the code to use to create the sessions on the logon page, and the validation type sessions on the following visited pages.


The logon page code is below.


Thanks



<?php

if (!isset($_SESSION)) {
  session_start();
}


$loginUsername = $_POST['username'];
$password = $_POST['password'];

mysql_select_db($database_testconn1, $testconn1);

$sql = "SELECT username, password, url, access FROM users WHERE username='$loginUsername' AND password='$password' LIMIT 1";
$user = mysql_fetch_assoc(mysql_query($sql, $testconn1));

if(count($user) > 0){
    header('Location: '.$user['url']);
}else{
    header('Location: login.php');
}
?>
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Tried the tutorials, but i still cant get it to work,


The problem is, i can get sessons to work on one webpage, but i cant when trying to get it to work on a webpage retrieved from a database, when user logs in . The url is stored in  a field in the database, and is specific to each log on (account)


any help plllzzz



Hi Scott,

Each subsequent page that uses your session or session data will have to have a [code]session_start() [/code] at the very top of the page, before any other output is sent.

For example:

[code]
<?php
session_start()
?>
<html>
<head><title>Any page on your site</title></head>
<body>
The page data.
</body>
</html>
[/code]

Hope that helps you.
Scott,

Your problem is that you aren't setting the session variables anywhere.  As soon as your user is confirmed as being logged in, you're redirecting them to their homepage.

This code:
[code]<?php
if(count($user) > 0){
  header('Location: '.$user['url']);
}
?>[/code]

Should look more like this:
[code]<?php
if(count($user) > 0){
  $_SESSION['username'] = $user['username']; // This assigns the value to a session variable
  header('Location: '.$user['url']);
}
?>[/code]

Check your email ;)

Regards
Huggie
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