User area / members page

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I have altered a simple member management system from a tutorial for my site. I have the login, logout, etc. all working fine. However I need to understand the concept behing having member pages.

 

Basically I'll have to type of users on my site, host and visitors/users. The host will have pages that they can maintain and broadcast and visitors can view the host pages based on whatever host they select. How do I go about making individual areas for each host upon their login? Sort of like a myspace system.

 

I am able to have a user control panel, see code below, but this is a page that only the host can see. I want a page that a host broadcast and vistors can view.

 

Thanks.

 

<?

session_start();

ob_start();

require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/db_connect.php');

require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/global.php');

 

//check cookie

if ($_SESSION['logged_in'] != 1 && isset($_COOKIE['login_cookie'])) {

list($user, $pass) = explode('[]', $_COOKIE['login_cookie']);

$qu = mysql_query("SELECT `user_password` FROM `hgl_members` WHERE `username` = '".addslashes($user)."'") or die(mysql_error());

if (mysql_num_rows($qu) == 1) {

$passw = mysql_fetch_object($qu);

if ($passw->user_password == md5($pass)) {

$_SESSION['logged_in'] = 1;

$_SESSION['username'] = $user;

$_SESSION['password'] = $pass;

}

}

}

 

if(!isset($_SESSION['username']) && !isset($_SESSION['password'])) {

$_SESSION['logged_in'] = 0;

$user = "Guest";

echo $html_cpheader;

echo 'You are not logged in and do not have access to this area.';

echo $html_cpfooter;

} else {

echo $html_cpheader;

//I will do user specific database read/writes here

echo $html_cpfooter;

}

?>