Re: Member authentication with PHP and MySQL

"Cato Larsen" <ravenno1@world-online.no> wrote in message news:20010813150906.46151.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > "Sheridan Saint-Michel" <webmaster@foxjet.com> wrote in message > news:00df01c12400$ad2a1220$d502a8c0@swbell.net... > > > From: Cato Larsen <ravenno1@world-online.no> > > To: <php-db@lists.php.net> > > Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 6:47 PM > > Subject: [PHP-DB] Member authentication with PHP and MySQL > > > > > > I'm trying to authenticate members by using php and MySQL. > > > How do I make the authentication to go to site: > > > members.php?charnick=$charnick > > > Where $charnick is brung from the DB line who was authenticated? > > > > I would use either cookies or sessions for this. > > First Check for the cookie, and verify its contents. > > If there isn't a cookie then do the login prompt like you > > are doing now. > > One more thing... > > When I've set up the script and run it on my local server I get this error: 1. what error? 2. replying at the top of a message is poor form. I know Outlook Express wants to do this; it's just one more reason to hate the Evil Empire. 3. please trim the replied-to stuff to keep only attributions and relevant content. I don't like having to read 5k of old text just to make sure you haven't added anything to it...