Hi All,

 

After a user logs into my website, i would like to echo there name.

 

I know you post and get from one page to another, but i have a page in the middle that validates there login.

 

this is my logon form so far:

 

<form action="<?php echo $loginFormAction; ?>" method="post" id="authorisation-check">
	<table width="400" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" class="table" id="table">
	  <tr>
		<th class="aligncenter whitetext" colspan="2">Please Enter Your Username And Password</th>
	  </tr>
	  <tr>
		<th align="right" class="spec">Username:</th>
		<td align="left"><input type="text" name="username"  id="username" /></td>
	  </tr>
	  <tr>
		<th align="right" class="specalt">Password:</th>
		<td align="left"><input name="password" type="password" id="password" /></td>
	  </tr>
	  <tr>
		<th align="right" class="spec"> </th>
		<td align="left"><input name="Submit" type="submit" class="button" value="Login" /></td>
	  </tr>
	</table>
  </form>

 

If their login details are correct it forwards them to a menu.

You could send the username in the URL and then use the $_GET method on the other page to find out what the username is.

On the page where you process their log in , assign session variables for that user. You can then access the $_SESSION array on other pages.

i lied there is only two pages:

 

login.php and menu.php

 

but instead of the form on login.php posting to menu.php it does the following:

 

<form action="<?php echo $loginFormAction; ?>" method="post" id="authorisation-check">

 

$loginFormAction is on the same page.

 

<?php
// *** Validate request to login to this site.
if (!isset($_SESSION)) {
 session_start();
}

$loginFormAction = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if (isset($_GET['accesscheck'])) {
 $_SESSION['PrevUrl'] = $_GET['accesscheck'];
}

if (isset($_POST['username'])) {
 $loginUsername=$_POST['username'];
 $password=$_POST['password'];
 $MM_fldUserAuthorization = "";
 $MM_redirectLoginSuccess = "index.php";
 $MM_redirectLoginFailed = "login.php";
 $MM_redirecttoReferrer = false;
 mysql_select_db($database, $connection);

 $LoginRS__query=sprintf("SELECT username, password FROM users_tbl WHERE username=%s AND password=%s",
GetSQLValueString($loginUsername, "text"), GetSQLValueString($password, "text")); 

 $LoginRS = mysql_query($LoginRS__query, $connection) or die(mysql_error());
 $loginFoundUser = mysql_num_rows($LoginRS);
 if ($loginFoundUser) {
 $loginStrGroup = "";

//declare two session variables and assign them
$_SESSION['MM_Username'] = $loginUsername;
$_SESSION['MM_UserGroup'] = $loginStrGroup;		  

if (isset($_SESSION['PrevUrl']) && false) {
  $MM_redirectLoginSuccess = $_SESSION['PrevUrl'];	
}
header("Location: " . $MM_redirectLoginSuccess );
 }
 else {

header("Location: ". $MM_redirectLoginFailed );
 }
}
?>

just set a session somewhere

 

 

$_SESSION['name'] = $_POST['name'];

 

 

 

 

echo $_SESSION['name']