Great option guys!!

I use PHP and I used it keeps telling me "Sorry, you're not logged in."

am i missing someting?

http://www.latinfreestyle.com/test.php

Did you change $ubber2452191_1937 for your own cookie number?

You also need to make sure you replace the dot with the underscore.

Thanks for the quick reply Paulus,

I changed the dot to the underscore

My own cookie number? , how can I find out what my cookie number is

Never mind I wasn't thinking I got it

Now that it is working how to implement this ?

I saw on Paulus his site (wich is awsome btw) that he made a pop up to log in when the user wants to view a member erea.

Paulus, you are amazing. Great thinking. Thanks so much for the tip.

your site if off the hook. Good work.

I saw the pop-up login window for the pictures area, how did you integrate that with the FORUM login ?

Thanks

On my previous design I blocked access to pages so I used to check for the login, if not logged in use the PHP header function to redirect to "login.php?referred=pictures.php"

The login.php script would then accept the username/password, test them against the UBB member files and if correct, set the UBB cookies and then use the $referred value to redirect the user back to the page they came from. The login.php script still has code in to set the "Ell" cookie but this was used by the Who's Online Hack I had on v6.05. You don't need to set this cookie for v6.3.

With the site redesign I chose not to block pages, just particular features so there is now code in the pages that presents an invitation to login if the cookie isn't present. This popups the login.php page, if all is correct it sets the cookie and reloads the opening page. All the login stages are reported into an access log. It was useful for debugging but it still runs today but it means I can see how many people login outside the forums.

Here's login.zip which contains login.php and common.php that it includes which has got a few site-wide variables and functions defined in it. Login.php is identical to the one on the site, common.php is just a cut down version.

Thanks Paulus!!

I got it running, it checks the member profile and log in, but somhow it don't set the cookie.
Test page

any idea what could be wrong?

Did you change $cookiename for your cookie number, with the dot in it this time?

i.e. $cookiename = "2452191.1937";

haha yes this time I did that, somehow it do not set the cookies hmm

Never mind Paulus, I found it, forgot to change it to my url....it is always those easy things I over see

Thanks for everything, now I am gonna see how I am going to use it

Maurice

Did you change the www.teamnicole.com to your own domain? Does it try to set the cookie? If you change your security settings on IE you can get it to tell you when a Cookie is trying to be placed on your PC.

You can also use things like Cookie Pal to browse your cookies and see what's happening. Does the access log reveal anything interesting? Maybe your absolute path to the UBB member file isn't set correctly, you can check this from within UBB. There are lots of things that can go wrong so you may want to add a few echo("Stage 1"); types of commands into the script to see where it gets to.

Ah I see, got there in the end.

LoL yeah

One more thing do.

I never worked with cookies and all before so this is kinda new.

When the user log in how can I direct them to the private pages ?

When the user go to a member-only page what do I have to put in the page so that they only see the "You have to log in" text/page and not the whole contend

Hope that made any sense...lol

I've sent you the 3 older files I used by email. This may be more appropriate if you want to block complete pages rather than parts of them or extra features on them.

Darn..I see I got an old mail addy in my profile.

Can you send it to molatinfreestyle@zonnet.nl please.

Thanks 4 your time

paulaus, can you send that file to me too. Thanks.

saidawil@hotmail.com

Same here Paulus.
I think I might be able to use it big time, if I can get it to work on my site :-(
rabriar@aol.com.
Thank you
rabriar

Thank you very much Paulus. Truely appreciate it.

Thanks