Change Login Link, When Logged In

[Bioshox]

Hey!

Iv programmed a community like blogging/cms system with a log in page

Its an external login page, but I was wondering how I can make the login link change to the username when there loged in

The link is : Fusion Strike; Live! any help would be greatly appreciated!

[webcodez]

Ehm, let me get this straight: so you want the login page name ( file ) to become the same name as the user who's logged in?

So say, user "testuser" is loggedin, you want the login page to be: testuser.php?

[Bioshox]

No.

When you log into Google, the login link changes to your email address

Id like that but insted of an email address

The user name stored in the database.

[webcodez]

ooh you mean that. Well that requires your login script & database structure...

But an example would be (login script with username showing when logged in):

<?php

session_start();

if($_SESSION['logged'] == true AND !empty($_SESSION['username'])) {

    echo "Welcome back, ".$_SESSION['username']; //welcome user w/ username

}else{

if($_POST) {



$check_login = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM accounts WHERE username = '".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['username'])."' AND password = '".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['password']."' ");

   if(mysql_num_rows($check_login) > 0) { //account found? valid login

   $_SESSION['logged'] = true; //set login session, indicating user has logged in
   $_SESSION['username'] = $_POST['username']; //save username, store in session

   echo "Welcome ".$_SESSION['username']; //welcome username with his username

   }

}

}
?>

Just wrote it so could be some typos not sure, but that's the basic idea. Hope this helped & is what you meant

[Bioshox]

the login system i have already Fusion Strike; Live! - Login

makes a session_start

will this work when I put the code in the index page?

or will I need to tell it to include /login.php ?!

Thanks for your help mate!

[webcodez]

You don't need to include the login page as sessions can be used at any of your pages as long as you set session_start() at the beginning of the page.
So the only thing you need to do is store the username in a session as done in the script above, and then on another page you can use that session to welcome the user ( if logged in ), and put sesion_start() above each of your pages that require use of these sessions.

Let me know if you got it working

Cheers.

[Bioshox]

I changed the code to correspond with my database structure

but it didn't work ):

<?php

session_start();

if($_SESSION['logged'] == true AND !empty($_SESSION['name'])) {

echo "Welcome back, ".$_SESSION['name']; //welcome user w/ username

}else{

if($_POST) {

$check_login = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE name='$name' AND pass='$pass'");

if(mysql_num_rows($check_login) > 0) { //account found? valid login

$_SESSION['logged'] = true; //set login session, indicating user has logged in
$_SESSION['name'] = $_POST['name']; //save username, store in session

echo "Welcome ".$_SESSION['name']; //welcome username with his username

}

}

}
?>

[Bioshox]

Got it working!!!!!!
Thanks for your help!! (:

[webcodez]

You're welcome, I'm glad I could help