Re: storing / processing login info (newbie stuff not in tutorials)

On Mar 14, 2008, at 10:15 AM, tedd wrote:

At 8:01 AM -0700 3/14/08, good_times wrote:

1. instead of typing: $conn=ocilogon("usrname","passwrd","db"); can i save this info in a file and have my php script either include or call it when it needs to make a db connection? what would that look like? i may want to point my app to a test db at some point & it would be nice to only change it in one place.

Use: include('config.php'); Where: $usrname = 'username'; $passwrd = 'password'; $db = 'mydB'; In your script include('config.php'); $conn=ocilogon($usrname,$passwrd,$db);

2. i see an example where a form in a login.html submits to "authcheck.php" but authcheck.php just prints ('User not found in LDAP' or 'error occured' or 'success'). how can authcheck.php redirect the user to... say.. BACK to the login.html and tell it "yes or no" and then have login.html either direct the user to a different data entry page (if the login was good), or display "sorry, try again" - all from the 1 form's "submit"

If ($auth != true) { header('Location: http://www.example.com/login.html');

exit; This will potentially save you some headaches.... Read more at: http://php.net/header

} It's all in the manuals. Cheers, tedd --------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com

HTH, ~Philip "Personally, most of my web applications do not have to factor 13.7 billion years of space drift in to the calculations, so PHP's rand function has been great for me..." ~S. Johnson