Hi

I'm using Dreamweaver MX and have downloaded an extension for the PHP User Login Server behaviour, which I may add works perfectly. My challenge now is to send the authenticated user to a specific page (or his / her own client area). With my limited knowledge of PHP I've not been able to get it right. I'm able to point the Success Page to a certain page which has a little PHP code snippet in the Head tags allowing me to direct the user to a specific location, but I need that redirection to be dynamic, so for example user A logs in he gets sent to User A's unique area. Please help someone...

Doing a <i>switch case</i> statement, or even at least an <i>if...else</i> statement should suffice.

I'm not sure what 3rd-party PHP [i[User Login Suite</i> you are using, so it's hard to help with. Can you post what extension, version, and where you got it from please. Also,l if you can post a code snippet of the <i>Login Server-Behavior[/i], so we can see what SESSION variables are declared when logging in. <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Hi Chris

Thanks for responding. The third-party PHP User Login Suite is Mini PHP Login.

I'm not too sure which part of the code snippet constitutes the Login Server-Behaviour so I'll just include all the PHP code that appears before the HTML tag. Sorry I hope this helps.

Antony

So Sorry Chris

Here is that code I promised:
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>
&lt;?php
include ("Connections/FlowTest.php";
function quitar($mensaje)
{
$mensaje = str_replace("&lt;","&lt;",$mensaje);
$mensaje = str_replace("&gt;","&gt;",$mensaje);
$mensaje = str_replace("\'","'",$mensaje);
$mensaje = str_replace('\"',""",$mensaje);
$mensaje = str_replace("\\\\","\",$mensaje);
return $mensaje;
}

if(isset($HTTP_POST_VARS["tcnUsername"]) && isset($HTTP_POST_VARS["tcnPassword"]))
{
$userN = quitar($HTTP_POST_VARS["tcnUsername"]);
$passN = quitar($HTTP_POST_VARS["tcnPassword"]);
mysql_select_db($database_FlowTest, $FlowTest);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT floPassWord FROM flowPass WHERE floPassName ='$userN'";
if($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
if($row["floPassWord"] == $passN)
{
//90 days for the cookie
setcookie("tcn_username",$userN,time()+7776000);
setcookie("tcn_password",$passN,time()+7776000);
header("Location:loginSuccess.php";
}
else
{
header("Location:loginFailed.php";
}
}
else
{
header("Location:register.php";
}
mysql_free_result($result);
}
mysql_close();
?&gt;
&lt;?php require_once('Connections/FlowTest.php'); ?&gt;
&lt;?php
mysql_select_db($database_FlowTest, $FlowTest);
$query_rsLogin = "SELECT * FROM flowPass";
$rsLogin = mysql_query($query_rsLogin, $FlowTest) or die(mysql_error());
$row_rsLogin = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsLogin);
$totalRows_rsLogin = mysql_num_rows($rsLogin);
?&gt;</font id=code></pre id=code>

Ok, I don't see any SESSION variables implimented in that code, but if there was more to it, I'd like you to provide a link to this <i>Mini PHP Login</i>. But I do see where a COOKIE is handled:
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>//90 days for the cookie
setcookie("tcn_username",$userN,time()+7776000);
setcookie("tcn_password",$passN,time()+7776000);</font id=code></pre id=code>
So, in DW MX, in your <i>Applications</i> panel, you would easy <b>add Cookie, and these are the two names you'll add</b>:
<ul><li>tcn_username</li><li>tcn_password</li></ul>


I'd look around the code it generates to see if <i>any</i> SESSION variables are used. <b>If you want to learn about Cookies & Sessions in PHP</b>, check out:
<ul><li><b>PHP Basics - Part 8: Cookies and Sessions</b> - www.dmxzone.com/go?6656</li><li><b>Working with Session Variables in PHP</b> - www.dmxzone.com/go?5454</li><li><b>User-Customised Content - Building content based on user profiles</b> - www.dmxzone.com/go?6587</li><li><b>Advanced User-Customised Content</b> - www.dmxzone.com/go?6604</li></ul>

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www.tecnorama.org/document.php?id_doc=48

Sorry Chris my knowledge of Cookies and Sessions isn't that good either. But I've just tried a similar thing in ASP in Dreamweaver, and in the Login User Dynamically Redirect dialogue it gives you the option to redirect to a URL from the database. That is exactly what I want the script to do. Please let it be possible in PHP.

Thanks

Antony

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Sorry Chris my knowledge of Cookies and Sessions isn't that good either. But I've just tried a similar thing in ASP in Dreamweaver, and in the Login User Dynamically Redirect dialogue it gives you the option to redirect to a URL from the database. That is exactly what I want the script to do. Please let it be possible in PHP.<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>

If you were able to do it in ASP, then it was Dreamweavers' default ASP <i>User Login Suite</i>, and if it's not available from your extension then you will need some custom code or request the feature from the Extension creator.

To do a redirect based on user, in PHP, it would be something like...
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>&lt;?php
$userPrivelage = $_SESSION['userGroup'];
if($userPrivelage = "admin"{
header("Location: admin_menu.php";
} else if ($userPrivelage = "user"{
header("Location: main_menu.php";
} else {
header("Location: login.php";
}
?&gt;</font id=code></pre id=code>
I hope this help guide you. <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Chris Charlton <i>- DMXzone Manager</i>
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You could have a look at this extension www.dreamweavermxsupport.com/index.php?type=news&newsid=24&block=2 (PHP Login Suite). It may be that it will do what you need.

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* Sorry... how do you do that again?... *

Good link Matt! That PHP Login Suite extension seemed to have a lot of SB's (Server-Behaviors). <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

Do you mind adding it to DMXzones' <i>Extensions</i> section, if you can't then reply here on this forum (or contact me). At the minimum it would do good in the <i>Links</i> section.

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