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  • matt307
    #1

    form posting difficulty

    I'm doing a login form and i am trying to get it to post to a page that
    would vary based on the username given. I have figure out how to
    display all the info once it is posted. I mean i know how to select it
    from the db but other than that i'm kinda at a dead end. so far i have
    the following code snibblets:

    Form Login

    <html>
    <head>
    <title>login</title>
    </head>
    <form method="post" action="main.ph p?user=$_POST[username]">
    // basic login form here with username and then username text box and
    then password and then password box and then submit button.
    // the name of the username field is username, name of password field is
    password and then submit button field is submit.

    Display page

    info to be determined. I havent decided if i should go with a template
    or not to be based on each user or not but thats a different story lol

    thx for all ur help if u can help me.
    ~matt

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    • matt307
      #2
      Re: form posting difficulty

      sorry bout the html, i wasnt sure if it was required to interpret the script
      or not. What i want to do is have the user log in and then from there be
      directed to their own page. I wasnt sure if that form action would be
      sufficent or if i would need something else. I know how to do all the
      verification checks and the displaying of their results but i couldnt get how
      to make the page display through the form verification.

      if you still dont understand let me know. i am trying to be as clear as
      possible.

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        • DrPollo
          #3
          Re: form posting difficulty

          matt307 <matt307@caroli na.rr.com> wrote in message news:<3F1C8646. B196200B@caroli na.rr.com>...[color=blue]
          > sorry bout the html, i wasnt sure if it was required to interpret the script
          > or not. What i want to do is have the user log in and then from there be
          > directed to their own page. I wasnt sure if that form action would be
          > sufficent or if i would need something else. I know how to do all the
          > verification checks and the displaying of their results but i couldnt get how
          > to make the page display through the form verification.
          >
          > if you still dont understand let me know. i am trying to be as clear as
          > possible.[/color]

          If you want to show a certain web page according to a variable you can
          insert this on your code:

          $page = $_POST['user'].'.php';
          require_once($p age);

          This will take the name of the user from the $_POST variable and then
          insert the code of "user".php into your page. There would be a
          user1.php, user2.php, user3.php pages...

          DrPollo

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            • matt307
              #4
              Re: form posting difficulty

              do u know how i would go about just having one page but making the page vary based on the
              username. such as:
              main.php?user=u sername

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                • Ian.H [dS]
                  #5
                  Re: form posting difficulty

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                  Whilst lounging around on Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:01:04 GMT, matt307
                  <matt307@caroli na.rr.com> amazingly managed to produce the following
                  with their Etch-A-Sketch:
                  [color=blue]
                  > do u know how i would go about just having one page but making the
                  > page vary based on the username. such as:
                  > main.php?user=u sername[/color]


                  Other than that being _extremely_ insecure:


                  @include("/path/to/users/files/{$_GET['username']}.php");



                  HTH.



                  Regards,

                  Ian

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                    • DrPollo
                      #6
                      Re: form posting difficulty

                      matt307 <matt307@caroli na.rr.com> wrote in message news:<3F1D7BED. 88191FE1@caroli na.rr.com>...[color=blue]
                      > do u know how i would go about just having one page but making the page vary based on the
                      > username. such as:
                      > main.php?user=u sername[/color]

                      It depends on what you want to do, for making a webmail-type page,
                      equal for all users but with some personalized info you should
                      consider using a database (mysql could be easy) and use the username
                      to retrieve that info.

                      DrPollo

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