Re: Sessions help please

KPortsmout@aol.com [KPortsmout@aol.com] wrote: > Hi, > > I am going to use sessions to authenticate and protect my pages, this is what > I have so far... > > User logs in via form, this is checked via a SQL call, if the correct > username and password are entered I run the following: > > session_start(); > session_register("UserName","Password"); You have to register each "field" like this: session_register("UserName"); // register UserName as a session var $UserName = $new_value_for_username; // give UserName session var a new value. session_register("Password"); // register Password as a session var $Password = $new_value_of_password; // give Password session var a new value. Then in the next script, after you do session_start();, you will have access to those previously registered session variables by just using $UserName and $Password. HTH. -- Hardy Merrill Mission Critical Linux, Inc. http://www.missioncriticallinux.com > header ("Location: Http://www.domain.com/members/index.php"); > > The bit where I get lost is 1) how to authenticate this on each page and 2) > How to close the session after the browser has closed. I have tried many > tutorials etc but none seem to go into great detail in those areas. Anyone > know of any decent tutorials or any snippets I can learn from. > > Thanks > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net