Dreamweaver- Membership Sites

I know someone who uses S2, let me ask them about it.

John

what's up Deon I'm feeling extra helpful today so I wrote you some code for a membership site. This is of course assuming that you coded it in php. I guess i just like to see people that actually make the sites themselves, and don't just rely on wordpress..not that there's anything wrong with that though haha. I commented it too so you could see what was going on. ( this wont help with persistent logins though).

the first part of the code is the login script ( A very basic one) and the second is a small piece of code that you will include on every membership page. Good luck!

(put this in a code editor or it ging to be very hard to read. Warriorforum doesn't format it the way i typed it)

<?php

//check to see if they entered a password and email in the form
if(isset($_POST['password']) && isset($_POST['email']))
{
//sanitize and set variables for the entered password and email
$entered_password = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlspecialchars($_POST['password']));
$email = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlspecialchars($_POST['email']));

//check to see if the email is in your database
$query = mysqli_query("SELECT password FROM user_table
WHERE email = '$email'
");
//get the returned values
$row = mysqli_fetch_array($query);

//this is the correct password that you will have in your database
$correct_password = $row['password'];

/* here your going to encrypt the entered password to recreate
it to match the one in your databse (which also should be encrypted)

Note: this is a weak encryption, and it doesn't have a hash,
but you can read more into that stuff later. for a more secure
encryption you should use bcrypt() but that's another story */
$entered_password = sha1($entered_password);

//check to make sure that the entered password matches the correct password
if($entered_password == $correct_password) {

// create a new session
session_regenerate_id(true);

//set the session logged in to true
$_SESSION['logged_in'] = TRUE;

//send them to the homepage of your membership site
header('location: [send them to membership area]');
//kill the script
exit();
}
}
/*if the password wasn't correct or they didn't fill out the
form you send them back to the homepage
*/
header('location: [send them back to home page]');
exit;

?>

<?php
/* on every page you have in your membership site use the code below

* and put this function somewhere in an includes page

function logged_in() {
if($_SESSION['logged_in'] ==true) {
return true;
}else{
return false;
}
}
*/

session_start();
require_once'[whatever page has the function uptop] ';

if(!logged_in()) {

header('location:[send them back to homepage]');
exit();
}
// else they get to view the content on the page
?>


AND THATS IT! YOUR DONE! you have a very basic
membership site!