members only

[pleasant]

how can i amke a page so only logged in people can view it?

[Ashes]

Assign a cookie when the person logs in, and then check that cookie's contents when they view the page.

If the user has the cookie, with the right content (password, username, whatever), then they can view the page.

If not, they get served with a page asking them to log in.

[cvrk3]

ashes, i forgot i posted a message of welcome to earlier Your posts are of quality, informative and also enjoyable!! keep it up and you have the ability to get to 10000 posts earlier than me. All the best

[Ashes]

Thank you so much. :)

Additionally I forgot to mention that if you don't want to use cookies, you can also do it with php sessions.

[pleasant]

im asking how do i do it like the code to put on the page

[Eric]

Well, how you will get the cookie writing to work, you decide, but you can write cookies in the following way:-

<?PHP
  setcookie("username",$name);
?>

And you can read them using this code:

<?PHP
  $_COOKIE['username'];
?>

Well you can use the $_COOKIE to display pages only to logged on members like this:

<?PHP
  if(isset($_COOKIE['username'])
  {
  include "./members.html";
  }
  else
  {
  echo "Sorry you are not logged on!";
  }
?>

Sorry if there are any errors, I just wrote it in a hurry without testing...

[Ashes]

We really shouldn't be coding for you. I'd be glad to help you work out your code and find and fix errors, but I won't write it for you.

If this is something you want to use, then you should either learn the technology or hire someone to do it for you.

If you'd like to learn, then this is the documentation for setcookie.