Hi, For my website I use cookies with PHP. Pretty simple to do but there is many advanced ways to do it. It all depends exactly what you want to do and how much control you want over it. Do a search on yahoo, google or somewhere for '.htacess' ... The first time I used username and password entries I used this. Very easy to setup and use if you have the ability to use such files on the server your on. Now I mainly use cookies to handle things via PHP and mysql. I find this way alot more reliable on all browsers. And you can track them on the database if you wish to for certain actions they do. But if your learining I suggest you do some reading up and start with .htaccess file(s) to do it. But if your keen and willing to learn feel free to jump into sessions and cookies. (I'd prefer the last way but both work great) If you would like the code I use let me know. However it will be a bit of code that is bare and with min. instructions. As I am not willing to hand over my work entirely I have created because a) it wont work for you as it's setup for my database use and b) it's better to be bare as you can learn and add to it as I have also. However if your using code and wanna pass it on and show me what you have you can do this and see where your errors are etc. To be totally honest using cookies did not take me long to learn, so a little time and willing to learn is the key to this. As for you posting some people are smart a__ on this board is not really true. People are not willing to just hand over code for you if you have not at least given it a try. However I do believe you deserved a fair go and pointed in the right direction before people snapping. I'm sorry you got treated in that manner. Fair enough if you were missing the obvious but you were looking at the right place at php.net but I must say the information on there is broad and in some cases your better off looking on a search engine. That's where I found 85% of what I was looking for. But now I post here when seeking help. As people on this mailing list are happy to help you _if_ you have some code to show them that you have given it a try and can give you pointers. No code here and seeking code, your chances of someone posting a lovely cute code is slim. How slim? Get one peice of straw and make him straight, that slim or possibly slimmer. Anyways, I hope this post is informative and you understand my points. (coz half the time I don't, so if you do thankyou ;)) Goodluck! http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
