Private link

[Tom Loughlin]

I am trying to create a link that will be accessed by a user after they have
completed a online form. Once they complete the form they will be emailed a
link to a page. I would like to make it so that you can not just cut and paste
the url to access this page......they should have to complete the online form
to get to the page. The site i am working on uses php.....i am fairly new to
php. Any help would be appreciated. thanks, -tom

[Ross Riley]

The best way to do this is to use a session. Managing Sessions is fairly easy
in PHP. put a session_start(); command at the top of the page. Then after they
have submitted the form set a session variable along the lines of....
$_SESSION['completed']=1; Then redirect to the secret url and on that page do a
session_start(); again at the top of the page and then kick them off the page
if they don't have the variable set.... eg.. if(!isset($_SESSIOM['completed']))
{ header('Location:defaultPage.html'); } Hope this makes sense, if not post
again with your specific code......