RE: [PHP-DB] Re: forced page links...

Jas, Try looking into the $HTTP_REFERER variable, for example; <? if ($HTTP_REFERER != "PageItShouldBeComingFrom.php") { Header ("Location: index.php"); } // blah blah ?> Cheers -----Original Message----- From: jas [mailto:jlgerfen@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 27 February 2002 6:04 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] Re: forced page links... Can you accomplish this without having the user logged in? I am unconcerned with whether or not the user has logged in, I simply need the user to not be able to bypass a page with a form to go directly to the end page which will connect and store the form contents into a db. Thanks in advance, Jas "Lerp" <joe@coastaldestination.com> wrote in message news:20020227185828.45920.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > 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 > > > > > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php