Authenication on each page

ainoy31 · Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 5

I need to authenicate username and password on each page so people can not just access them. I only have one admin login in the database. I have an admin login page for username and password to enter. Once that is entered, these two info gets posted on a validation page where is checks against the database. If everything is correct, then I redirect them to another page. If the username and password is incorrect, then I redirect to the admin login page.

What would be the best way to authenicate user at each page?

thx.

AM

saboi · Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 9

Hi, you can use sessions or cookies for that.

Create a global session when the user logs on.

$pass=$_['pass'];
$name=$_['name'];

if($pass=="password" $$ $name=="name")

{$_SESSION["name"]=$name;header("Location:allow.php");

}

else{ echo"Incorrect loggin details!";}

On each page that you would like to validate include something like below

<?
session_start();

if((isset($_SESSION["name"]))

{echo"You are not signed in!;}

?>

When someone goes directly to that site and the session is not set(that only done at loggin), they will get the message telling them they are not logged in.

Hope that helps.