RE: [PHP] User authentication

Thanks for the advise! It's a big help. I'll go play now and come back with more intelligent questions later! Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Joseph [mailto:djoseph@duhq.us] > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:32 AM > To: Jeff McKeon; Dan Joseph; php > Subject: RE: [PHP] User authentication > > > Hi, > > > That's great help and exactly what I'd like to do timeouts > and all. I > > now just need to figure out he mechanics of the code for it > and get a > > better understanding of sessions. I'm thinking in the user > table I'll > > have a bunch of boolean fields for different permissions > that apply to > > different pages etc. To keep it simple at first I'll just have two > > permissions "read only" and "edit". Read only users will not be > > allowed to access pages where they can edit data. > > > > How do you check for idle? I suppose there is a built in variable > > that you check against the value in the table. How do I pull up or > > refer to session variables? > > Sessions are stored in the $_SESSION array. A simple > check would be: > > if ($_SESSION['user_id'] == "" || > is_null($_SESSION['user_id'])) redirect_to_index_function(); > > Where 'user_id' is, that would be the name of the > session you created. Just insert that at the top of each page > (might be best suited in an include file). > > -Dan Joseph > > >