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[sheldonlg]

There is probably a trivial answer to this question, and I will look stupid,
but here goes.

I have a login screen. I test for (1) allowable username, (2) matching
passwords, existance of data in aother field. What I want to do is have the
same module run, but have a different message added each time. The brute (and
ugly) force way is to have four five *.php files, with one actually doing the
php stuff and the other four including this file but having either no message
or one of the three messages.

A second way is to have one file which calls itself on error, but first sets a
login_error session variable and insert a <? some code ?> at the proper
place(s). Depending upon the value of that session variable which is set when
the error occurs it would write to the page different messages. This is
cleaner.

Is there an easier way to do this? I think there is, but since I am a web
coding novice, I haven't yet learned how to add data to a URL and to extract
it. I think would be the cleanest way.

Can someone point me in the proper direction?

Shelly

[sheldonlg]

I am having some problems.

If I use session variables, and I followed the instructions to ronly use
$_SESSION, I accurately create the session variables but they don't get passed
to the called page.

If I create the "/?username=$loginUsername" attachment to the called URL, it
gets passed but two new problems appear. First, it ignores the stylesheet and
second, an error appears if there is no username passed. I used the <?php
echo $_GET['username']; ?> to get the value.

Shelly

[gareth]

Are you using session_start() at the very top of every page that uses
session variables?


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