Re: Session Authentication etc...

On Tuesday 30 April 2002 22:57, Troy Lynch wrote: > I'm currently rewriting a website in PHP and something I'm looking to do is > login and logouts but also have a page to view who is logged at the present > time. Assuming that you do not require a user to logout, there is no reliable method to determine whether a user is (still) logged in. The best you can do is know (1) When they logged in & (2) When their last request was. > I've kinda made some login code which basically checks the database > and then sets a cookie which I think I will change cause it looks like I > wonna do session variables. Anways anyone either know of a decent > authentication lib that I can use to check the users online and do > authentication or can someone point me in the right direction in doing > this? There's something called php_lib_login that you can google for. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe. -- Bill Murray */