Useful login

[sveegaard]

Hi,

I'm pretty new to PHP and MySQL - still, I want to make a login for my homepage.

Can anyone help me?

The database has to store username, password, a unique ID# and a type (admin or user).
Now, when a user logs in, the user can see more data about himself (I think I can figure this out myself).

I need to use sessions and a cookie for "remember-me"-service and a logout. Also a logout when the browser closes.

I know it sounds stupid and I have searched for code snippets and tutors, but no luck. But I'm a n00b at PHP :P

[mort1]

Check this thread and review Winsocket's answer!

[Jmacp]

I'm a newb at php as well but to set a cookie you can do ,

setcookie("yourcookiename", "1", time()+3600); 

this will expire in an hour during this time isset($s) returns true when it expires isset($s) = false. The 1 is for remember me = yes, 0 remember me = no for ex.

then on page load add,

@$s = $_COOKIE["yourcookiename"];

if (isset($s))  //check if cookie has expied or not
{
       if($S = "1"){
                      //remember me = true
                     }else{
                     //remember me = false
                     }

}else{

echo "Your remember me session has expired";

} 

[sveegaard]

#2, thnx for that link! I found them very useful, so I'll just drop by later if there's a prob