[RichLondoner]

New to PHP and trying to pass a username and encrypted password from one php page to another.

Page 1 gets $username from a cookie which is made by our intranet system, then finds the associated $password from a user database and then encrypts the password to $encryptedpassword. Then $username is checked too see if the user exists in a forum i'm setting up (phpbb) and if not redirects to page 2 where the user is to be added automatically from the various variables.

Page 2 needs to read these variables so that I can automatically add the user.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Richard

[Barnz1986]

Originally Posted by RichLondoner

New to PHP and trying to pass a username and encrypted password from one php page to another.

Page 1 gets $username from a cookie which is made by our intranet system, then finds the associated $password from a user database and then encrypts the password to $encryptedpassword. Then $username is checked too see if the user exists in a forum i'm setting up (phpbb) and if not redirects to page 2 where the user is to be added automatically from the various variables.

Page 2 needs to read these variables so that I can automatically add the user.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Richard

Use sessions.

First page: -

PHP Code:

session_start();



$_SESSION['username'] = $username;

$_SESSION['password'] = $password; 

Second page: -

PHP Code:

session_start();



$username = $_SESSION['username'];

$password = $_SESSION['password']; 

Third page: -

PHP Code:

session_start();



$username = $_SESSION['username'];

$password = $_SESSION['password']; 

etc.

[jonbeckett]

I concur with the first answer - sessions will be the easiest method.

You could use POST too, but the advantage of sessions is you're keeping the data server-side too, so no sensitive data is travelling back and forth over the network.

[RichLondoner]

That didn't work at all, comes back with various errors:-

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (edit - file info)

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (edit - file info)

Notice: Undefined index: username

Notice: Undefined index: password

Any other ideas, I think sessions and cookies won't work as I have code above where I need to see the session...

Thanks,
Rich

[Nico]

You have to place the session_start(); at the top of your page, before outputting anything to the browser.

[RichLondoner]

Ok, that seemed to work for the first page, but I am still getting these errors on the second page when I try to read the sessions...

Notice: Undefined index: username
Notice: Undefined index: password

Thanks so far!
Rich

[UnrealEd]

just set error_reporting to E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE
it's just a notice, it's no big deal.
you can do this by placing this on top of EVERY page:

PHP Code:

error_reporting(E_ALL ^E_NOTICE);

// or you could use:

error_reporting(2037); 

you could also edit your php.ini file: look for error_reporting and give it the value E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE

if you do want to use the NOTICE reportin use this code:

PHP Code:

session_start();

$username = "username";

$password = "password";

session_register("username", "password"); 

you might wonna read this page about sessions:
http://be2.php.net/manual/en/functio...n-register.php

Greetz,
UnrealEd

[RichLondoner]

Thanks all...

Page 1 :

session_start();
session_register("username", "password");

& later on in another bit of code did:

$_SESSION['username'] = $dpusername;
$_SESSION['password'] = $encryptedpassword;

Page 2 :

session_start();
$Username = $_SESSION['username'];
$Password = $_SESSION['password'];

and then echoing the $username/$password seemed to work great as I can now pass the username and encrypted password from page to page...

Thanks guys, I maybe back at one point!
Rich

[Alli]

it's better to use cookies than session, as i think

[UnrealEd]

Originally Posted by Alli

it's better to use cookies than session, as i think

why's that?

session are destroyed when a user closes it's window, unless otherwise defined in the server settings.
cookies remain on the user's computer till they expire

Greetz,
UnrealEd