Re: forced page links...

Hi there :) I use session variables to do this, once the user has logged in and you know they are who they say they are, set a session variable using session_register("isloggedin"); $isloggedin = "yes"; And at the top of every page you want protected simply do a check to see if it is set or not. Below code checks to see if that var is set and if not it redirects them to another page. <?php session_start(); ?> <?php if (!isset($HTTP_SESSION_VARS["islogged"])){ header("Location:index.php"); } ?> Hope this helps, Joe :) "Jas" <jlgerfen@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:20020227171009.50616.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I am wondering if there is a good tutorial on how to use php to make users > come from a page before they can access another. For instance, say you have > one page called index.php which contains a form that once filled in links to > a confirmation page to verify the users data was entered correctly then from > there links to a page that stores the users data into a database table. The > problem I would like to alleviate is to make sure the users cannot just type > in the name of the last page in the url and put a blank entry into the > database. I have read a few tutorials on using sessions but I am unclear on > how the use of sessions would require the user to visit each page in > succession. Thanks in advance, > Jas > >