Member Area

[mademokid]

I have a successful login/out and register script, but I want to make a 'personal' member area. Can someone tell me how to do this or give me some help.

 

[Trotter]

I know with vB, you set it up with group permissions. Dunno about other BB types.

 

[mademokid]

I am doing it myself with php.

 

[Yek]

Source please

 

[mademokid]

I am making it all myself. The pages are .: Ask Scholey.com :.
/register.php and /members.php

 

[Vormund]

Since you have the login working, I assume you know if the user's logged in, with a session or cookie? With that...

You can use that to either show different pages or include the 'member' stuff (eg, if ($SESSION['loggedIn']) { // include user panel } else { // include standard panel }, just remember to verify on the "member" stuff itself that they're logged in and such, versus someone trying to be a hacker.

It's all just preference on how you want it done.

 

[mademokid]

They are cookie logged in. I also want a () users logged in feature.

 

[Vormund]

So, it sounds like you have everything needed to start coding this up?

 

[mademokid]

Yes. Any help appreciated

 

[CrazeD]

When your user logs in, you should assign a few sessions.

Make sure you have session_start(); somewhere in your script.

You want to be able to tell if your user is logged in. You want to do this with a session rather than a cookie because users can edit cookies, but a session is stored on the server - it can't be edited.

I also usually assign sessions with the username for easy identification.

Do something like this:

// if they're able to login
$_SESSION['loggedin'] = TRUE;
$_SESSION['username'] = $_POST['username']; // from the login form

Now, when you want to call it, do this:

if ($_SESSION['loggedin'] == TRUE) {
// user is logged in
} else {
// user is not logged in
}

I assume by a "personal" member area, you want only the owner to see it?

If so, the way I would do it is to pull the user ID from your users table (you made user ID's right?). You can do this with a session, like this:

$_SESSION['user_id'] = @mysql_result($result, user_id);

$result refers to your MySQL query result, and user_id refers to the column in your table.

Then you can do something like this:

// say your url is www.something.com/profile.php?id=4
if ($_SESSION['loggedin'] == TRUE) {
$id = $_GET['id'];
$user_id = $_SESSION['user_id'];
if ($id == $user_id) {
// display the personal page
} else {
// it's not this user's page
}
} else {
// not logged in
}

Hope I didn't confuse you, and hope I helped.



EDIT: Probably the best way to get the amount of users logged in would be with MySQL. Add a column to your users table called "is_logged_in" or something like that. Make it an INT and make the default value 0. 0 = not logged in, 1 = logged in.

Then when the user logins do a MySQL UPDATE on the table to give is_logged_in a value of 1.

Then, do a query like this:

$sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE is_logged_in='1'";
$result = mysql_query ($sql);
$mysql_num_rows ($result);
print $mysql_num_rows;

mysql_num_rows will count the rows with a value of 1 in the column "is_logged_in".

I'm not sure how you would change the 1 back to a 0, though. Obviously you could do it if they clicked logout, but after say 10 minutes of inactivity - I'm not sure how you would do it.

Hope I helped.