Re: Session management

On 7 Feb 2002, at 18:36, Danny Kelly wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to set up a session management system for my site. Check > out my site (under development) > http://www.planttel.com/newsite2/home.php I have a user auth > system > installed already. What I want is when a customer clicks on log in > that it will prompt them for a user name and password (which I have > established) with a check box that says "Remember my password" So when > the user comes to the site they will already be logged.. Can some one > shed some lite on that for me.. A TOTAL NEWBIE!!! You should read the following. The example code is in Perl but the concepts are the same: > Basic Cookie Management http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col61.html Randal really slams bad cookie management. Me, I don't like using cookies at all anyhow. I like putting it in the url. Perl has more than a few CPAN modules to handle this. But it would be a lot of work to re-write any of those in PHP. I'm pretty much a PHP newbie myself. I often look here for "classes": http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/ And here are some for session management: http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html/class/21/ I just recently put Sessionara on a site I'm developing but the docs are skimply and it didn't work for me out of the box as I would have liked. But you might want to look at it. One thing is that it uses global and I HATE using global. This does not use cookies. I think you want a system that uses cookies. Try phpbuilder.net http://phpbuilder.net/search/?sort=Score&method=and&config=forum&restri ct=&exclude=&words=sessions Lots of stuff there. They probably have an article. Peter --------------------------- "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away". -- Philip K. Dick