On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 16:26, Brad Dameron wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 15:17, Jason Davis wrote: > > sc.php > > <?php > > setCookie('data' , 'blah'); > > include 'gc.php'; > > ?> > > > > gc.php > > <?php > > print $_COOKIE['data'] . " <-here"; > > ?> > > > > > > this is the out put of running sc.php > > > > <-here > > > > > > why is this , i want to set a cookie ... then have a include do > > something > > with it ... is this not possible to do during the same http transaction? > > > > thanks > > Your setcookie line is wrong. You have a uppercase C. Which it will > think it is a different function. > > Also with your login page instead of sending them to another page to > check auth send them to the same page. Here is a example: > > if (isset($_GET['user']) && $_GET['type'] == "submit") { > $user = trim($_POST['user']); > $pass = trim($_POST['pass']); > if ( "1" == $autherror=authenticateUser($user, $pass)){ > $_SESSION['app_user'] = $user; > $_SESSION['app_pass'] = $pass; > error_log ("DNS_LOGIN: $user logged in from ip: $ip.", 0); > header("Location: tiny_edit_login.inc.php"); > exit; > } else { > error_log ("$user failed on " . date("m-d-Y H:i:s") . " with > password of '$pass' from ip: $ip", 0); > } > } > > > > I return back a 1 if auth successful or a 0 if not. I prefer to use > session's with cookies over cookies directly. > > Brad > i like this idea , how then do you go about making sure users are authed on pages other than the login page? here is my plan ... use this object for auth <?php $seed_phrase = 'my_wife_Would_love_it_no_really'; $use_mysql = '0'; // set to one and fill in $mysql_vars else set to 0 and file in $passwdFile var rel or full path $mysql_ip = '1.1.1.1'; $mysql_user = 'nub'; $mysql_pass = 'nubpasswd'; $mysql_db = 'testdb'; $mysql_passwd_key = 'username'; $mysql_passwd_field = 'password'; $mysql_table = 'users'; $passwdFile = '/var/www/web_editor/.htAuthTool'; class AuthTool{ function checkAuth(){ if(empty($_COOKIE['data'])){ return 0; } else{ $data = $_COOKIE['data']; list($username,$hash) = split(",", $data); $phrase1 = md5($username . $seed_phrase . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']); if(!strcmp($phrase1 , $hash)){ return $username; } else{ return 0; } } } // close checkAuth function cookiePut($user){ $phrase = md5($user . $seed_phrase . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']); $authData = $user . "," . $phrase; setCookie('data' , $authData); }//close cookiePut function auth($user,$pass){ $pass = md5($pass); if($use_mysql){ $query = "select $mysql_passwd_field from $mysql_table where $mysql_passwd_key = '$user'"; $result = $this->sqlQuery($query); if(!$result){ echo "Error:No sql result"; } else{ list($thePass) = mysql_fetch_array($result); //this line might not work , test with mysql later if(!strcmp($thePass , $pass)){ $this->cookiePut($user); return $user; } } return 0; } else{ global $passwdFile; if($passwd_file = file($passwdFile)){ foreach($passwd_file as $line){ list($username,$passwd,$groups) = split(":" , $line); if(!strcmp($username , $user)){ if(!strcmp(rtrim($pass) ,rtrim($passwd))){ $this->cookiePut($user); return $user; } } } } else{ return "Error:No passwd file."; } return 0; } }//close auth function sqlQuery($theQuery){ $db = mysql_connect($mysql_ip,$mysql_user,$mysql_pass) or die("Could not connect to database"); mysql_select_db($mysql_db) or die("Could not select database"); $result = mysql_query($theQuery) or die("query failed"); return $result; } // close sqlQuery }// close class ?> and put this at the top of each page ... include 'inc/AuthTool.class.php'; if(!AuthTool::checkAuth()){ //send to login //exit } any feedback? :) ty, jd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php