Re: Login and sessions?

Start here http://www.WebmasterBase.com/article/319 Sure, it isn't perfect, and doesn't do everything you want it to do (and it currently relies in register_globals ON), but I found it educating, and formed the basis of my own user/admin/clearance/membership/session management system which I use on EVERY project. Worth a read, even just to understand the theories. Justin on 24/01/03 12:17 PM, Pag (dante@mail.telepac.pt) wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to add a "login" functionality to my new manager. A simple > username/password functionality, so that the user logs in and everything he > does inside the site will have his name. I mean, if he wants to create a > new entry on the database, the field "name" wont have to be filled, etc. > Anyway, i dont have a clue to where to start. Tried to search the net but > i dont even know the keywords to search for. Could you guys please put me > in the good path? > Heres where i got so far: > > Have a table on a mysql database named USERS, with "name", password" > "address", etc on it. > What do i use to authenticate the user on my site? Sessions? If so, the > steps i need to solve the problem are, user logs in, the server keeps his > personal variables in "memory" so everytime they are needed for some form > or whatever, the server fills the fields automatically. > > How can i have several users "logged on" and then have like a box on the > site displaying who and how many users are logged in? > Sorry for the messed up explanation, but i really dont know what do do > about it. Thanks. > > Pag > >