Re: 2 questions

----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Hochstetter" <fisherofmen@gmx.net> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 5:33 PM Subject: [PHP] 2 questions > Hi guys. > > I have two questions for you today: > > 1. Weired login problem > I am developinig a site for a conference where i have a login page for > members. This page is called index.php and includes different types of modules, > according to the type of user logged on. The problem is now following: > i have a login function hidden in a class, this function registers a bunch > of variables. After the user has submited the details, index.php (which calls > the session_start()) calls the login function. Then i check whether a session > variable is present ($_SESSION['name']). If yes, we include the members > area, otherwise we include the login table again. Now: on my test server > (XP/Apache/php4.3.2) all is well. However, on the real server (Linux/Apache/php4.0.x) > it just includes the login table anyway, even if the login was successful. I > then have to click on the menu link again to include the member script. > Why is that? Check your register_globals setting in both ur test server and real server and let me know. > > 2. Save a large amount of text to a file > On the same page i have some type of cms going. The admin users can change > txt files which relate to text on some of the general pages. I have now found > that it is only transmits a certain amount of text via GET to the function > that writs to the files. Is there a restriction on passing text via url? If yes > (which will be the case), how could i do this otherwise? Use POST instead of GET method... POST method allows u to even extend the size of data being posted. Hope this helps... > > Thanks so long... > > Thomas > P.S: this list still rocks > > -- > COMPUTERBILD 15/03: Premium-e-mail-Dienste im Test > -------------------------------------------------- > 1. GMX TopMail - Platz 1 und Testsieger! > 2. GMX ProMail - Platz 2 und Preis-Qualitätssieger! > 3. Arcor - 4. web.de - 5. T-Online - 6. freenet.de - 7. daybyday - 8. e-Post > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >