Page access restriction

chrisruss posted this at 10:19 — 1st March 2006.

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I am a noob and need help with the following problem,

I am building a site on which 2 pages need to be restricted.
the first needs to be accessable only if redirected from payment centre this is in php.
the second is accessable after login as a redirect which is in html

I have no idea how to code this or where to place the code any advice would be great.

Thanks

Busy posted this at 20:50 — 1st March 2006.

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The payment center should offer redirect options shouldn't they?

you can set PHP up to use html extensions, so you can use (header: location.html) *before any screen output*

chrisruss posted this at 21:04 — 1st March 2006.

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thanks for the advice. I got the payment redirect working.

but I still need help with members login access is there a code that will create a cookie that the restricted page will look for hence preventing access if not present and will redirect to the login page.

Busy posted this at 08:43 — 2nd March 2006.

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To set a cookie:
setcookie("name","cookie-value",time()+(3600*24*365));

name= name of cookie
cookie-value = whatever you want it to equal (dont put passwords in there)

to set a session (which would become a cookie if cookies enabled)
session_name(SESSION_NAME);
$value = $_SESSION['IS_LOGGED'];

SESSION_NAME = name of session (same as it would be in cookie)
IS_LOGGED = can be anything
$value is the PHP variable that can be checked on pages you want to see if it's been set, like so:
if(!isset($_SESSION['IS_LOGGED']))
{
Header("Location: login.php");
exit;
}