Ideas on Auth, pls advise

I just added 'loginAttempt' as a session variable in Auth. well, not 'in' it, but in my login and verification code outside the class (see code below) What I'd like to do is have the class handle this all on its own. This is what I see should (could, might?) happen... - new session - set 'loginAttempt' to ZERO - if current session AND user not logged in - see if current count is != maxAttempt (see below) - if yes, increment 'loginAttempt' - if no, run 'failedLogin' <- new method, in line with 'drawLogin' - at successful log in - set 'loginAttempt' to ZERO - be able to set max attempts... $auth->maxAttempts = 3; I know how to add that variable to the class. Do so infact to mine. Since I'm not all that good at OOP (yet) and I'd rather ask then tell right now, can someone who knows AUTH Class please advise on how best to do this? I'd like to do this for my copy at least. Besides, it will help me grok PHP OOP. Thanks Walter BTW: To make my attempt counter work, I had to add 'session_destroy();' to logout method... if (isset($_SESSION)) { unset($session[$this->_sessionName]); session_destroy(); } else { session_unregister($this->_sessionName); session_destroy(); } What will this break? =-============================================= // A database is used as storage container in this example $objAuth = &new Auth("DB", $params); // Define login method - don't show it! $objAuth->showLogin = false; // Define maximum login attempts $objAuth->maxAttempts = 3; // Set Session login attempt counter if (! $objAuth->getAuthData('loginAttempt')) $objAuth->setAuthData('loginAttempt', '0'); ... other code if ($objAuth->getAuth()) { // We're in! Now go somewhere else! header("Location:success.php"); } else { if (isset($_REQUEST['act']) && ($_REQUEST['act'] == 'login')) { echo '<div>Unsuccessful attempt, please try again.<p /></div>'; } if ($objAuth->getAuthData('loginAttempt') != $objAuth->maxAttempts ) $objAuth->setAuthData('loginAttempt', ($objAuth->getAuthData('loginAttempt') + 1)); else header("Location:failed.php"); } // Login HTML Form goes here