Re: [PHP] PHP Auth

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Steve Marquez
<smarquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I have a form that I use to authenticate users stored in a MySQL database.
I want to be able to ensure that no body will be able to bookmark a page and
be able to return to that page without authenticating. But I also want the
authenticated user to be able to use all the subsequent pages without having
to re-authenticate during that session.

Does this make sense?


You'll want to a check to see if their session is active. Are you using the
$_SESSION array? If so, you could do something as simple as a quick if at
the top of each page:

if ( !isset( $_SESSION['blah'] )
{
header( "Location: login.php" );
}

You should read up on session tracking. That's really what you want. Once
the session is established, its really just a matter of "Is it there?" and
"If not, what do I do?".

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