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$page = "users/$user.html"; // replace with you page
header("Location:$page");
or, you could use a
echo "<body onload=\"window.location='$page'\">";
or
echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"REFRESH\" CONTENT=\"0; URL=$page\">";
or of course you could
include("$page");
as you can see, there are many ways using PHP or HTML to redirect
1. user fills login form
2. user submits form
3. script submitted to authenticates user entered information
4. once auth is done redirect to
a. login failure page
b. logged in page
so it would be the pass/fail part of your login
Once logged in, but before redirecting, you may want to store some login info in a session. Then in your "config" file (any file that gets included in the top of every page) you check for a valid login.
That's one possibility anyway.
Tom
What happens at the end of the login?
Where does it presently send them?
does it just include a page or have output itself?
Is the login script, which is on a page of it's own, then I use
$page = "centre.php";
echo "<body onload=\"window.location='$page'\">";
As the forwarding script, but if I put it anywhere except on it's own after the login script, it does not work.
if(mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) { // this indicates success
$logged_in_user = $user;
session_register("logged_in_user");
$page = "centre.php";
} else { // this indicates login error
$page = "loginerror.php";
}
header [ca.php.net]("Location: $page");
that should work, though both of those pages would have to be located in the site root. Otherwise the paths will have to adjusted.
even a space or an empty line at the top of the file before the <? can cause it to error out.
<?
if($user && $pass) {
if($logged_in_user == $user) {
echo $user.",you are already logged in.";
exit;
}
$db = mysql_connect("*******", "*****", "*******");
mysql_select_db("users", $db);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = '".$user."' AND password = PASSWORD('".$pass."')");
if(!$result) {
echo "Sorry, there has been a technical error.";
exit;
}
if(mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
$logged_in_user = $user;
session_register("logged_in_user");
$page = "centre.php";
} else {
$page = "loginerror.php";
}
}
echo "<body onload=\"window.location='$page'\">";
?>
But it is keeps trying to reload the same page (login.php) rather than continuing to the base page.
<?
if($user && $pass) {
if($logged_in_user == $user) {
echo $user.",you are already logged in.";
exit;
}
$db = mysql_connect("*", "*", "*");
mysql_select_db("users", $db);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = '".$user."' AND password = PASSWORD('".$pass."')");
if(!$result) {
echo "Sorry, there has been a technical error.";
exit;
}
if(mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
$logged_in_user = $user;
session_register("logged_in_user");
$page = "centre.php";
} else {
$page = "loginerror.php";
}
}
header("Location: $page");
?>
That's not going to fix things, though, unless you are handling the error (no user, no password entered) somewhere else inside this script.
if(mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
$logged_in_user = $user;
session_register("logged_in_user");
header("Location: centre.php");
} else {
header("Location: loginerror.php");
}
if ($user && $pass) {
...yaddayadda...
} else {
$page = "login.php";
}
...if you will be continuing to use the secondary redirection rather than including the redirection in the qualifying login routine.
if(mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
$logged_in_user = $user;
session_register("logged_in_user");
header("Location: centre.php");
exit;
} else {
header("Location: loginerror.php");
exit;
}
(Without exiting from the routine after redirecting, PHP will continue to "walk" the page, possibly messing with something else.)
:)
