Re: Using a mysql data base and cookie to log a person in

Have you considered PHPLIB? http://phplib.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplib http://www.sanisoft.com/phplib/manual/ The docs'll give you an idea of how they did it. The code is pretty complex, though, but it does a lot. I'd suggest using this as a base, if PHP4's session handling isn't sufficient. I use it, with my own hacks for my authorization needs. -steve At 8:38 AM -0800 2/20/02, Brandon Orther wrote:

Hello, I loosely understand how I can have a person login to a system by giving them a cookie with a certain amount of time with a encrypted code. And save that same encrypted code in the database for a certain amount of time. I am looking for a tutorial on how to do this so I can wrap my mind around it a little better. If anyone knows a good tutorial on how to log people into your site using a userser database please hook me upZ wiT da Inf0z -------------------------------------------- Brandon Orther WebIntellects Design/Development Manager brandon@webintellects.com 800-994-6364 www.webintellects.com --------------------------------------------

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