Universal password for Membership Script

jhon · 07-10-2005

Hi,

Thanks for the great Membership Tutorial!

I was wondering if it's possible (and if so, how?) to make things so that after signing in users could travel to diferent subdomains without having to login again.

For example: Enter site sub.domain.com --> sign in --> go to sub2.domain.com = no re-sign in needed.

I would appreciate any help that you could give.

Thanks,
Jhon

**Man1c M0g** · 07-10-2005

My advice would be to use cookies instead of sessions (with a cookie domain of .domain.com, of course). This would probably require an extensive rewrite of the membership scripts though...

jhon · 07-10-2005

Hi, Thanks a lot for such a quick reply!

An Extensive rewrite may be a bit beyond me. I may end up moving all of the stuff to be password protected onto one of the subdomains

.

Any other suggestions also appreciated.

Thanks,
Jhon

jhon · 07-10-2005

Another question... Would it be difficult (for a beginner) to make a "save password & login name" feature to save the hassles of multi-signins?

Thanks,
Jhon

ParaSnake · 07-11-2005

In fact,i dont get ur question,but maybe i could help you :

1.
Why not use session?i think its a good idea,put a

PHP Code:


			
header("location:www.sub2.domain.com");

at the end of the sign in page to redirect to sub2 with all the session.

2.
"multi login" ,i dont get this point,if you want an anti-flooding ,just use some random number to prevent it.

jhon · 07-12-2005

Hi ParaSnake,

Thanks for the reply.

I have a diferent signin page for each subdomain (in different languages) and I would like to allow users that have signed in to be able to visit the other subdomains without having to login to each of them.

I'll have a look into "header("location:www.sub2.domain.com"); " and hopefully that will do the trick.

I'll let you know.

Thanks again, Jhon

jhon · 07-14-2005

Hi again,

As you probably have guessed and I have found out, the "header("location:www.sub2.domain.com"); " wasn't what I was after. Thanks anyhow.

I've been checking around for a solution and have found a few questions from people who&ve been having the same sort of troubles, but I haven't yet found a that I understand!

If anyone out there could help I'd be very grateful!!!

Till then I'll keep looking.

Cheers,
Jhon

ParaSnake · 07-14-2005

I become to understand what you are trying to do

If this was not what you want,please let me know:
[quote]
- You want to create multiple log in page (use for Multiple language?)
- after the user has logged in,user will be transfered to the specified domain
[/quote[

This would be easy to solve if you know what session is,heres a quick and clean tutorial for you :
http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/41/0.php

After reading it(it may cost only 10 mins,believe me,but it could longer depend on ur PHP version

) you will know what to do.

Note : If you intend to do it with another host(mean sub2.domain.com point to a file in another host,i suggest you burn it out and think of a new way.

jhon · 07-15-2005

Hi ParaSnake,

Thanks for your reply again. That tutorial was really great and gave me an understanding of sessions.

I have created mulitple login pages on diferent subdomains. I don't want the user to be redirected after login though. If the user chooses to visit another subdomain then they won't need to login again. Like the login session would valid for other subdomains.

This is what happens now:

1. User logs in to www.site.com
2. User goes to sub1.site.com
3. User must log in
4. etc

This is what I'm hoping to do:
1. User logs in to www.site.com
2. User goes to sub1.site.com
3. No log in because user already logged in on another area of the site.

So basically, once a user has logged in once they are free to travel to other protected areas (subdomains)　without logging in again.

Any help would be appreciated and thanks again for the great tutorial.

Cheers,
Jhon

jhon · 07-15-2005

Hi,

Thanks to everyone for their help.

I think that I've found an answer. I will test it a bit more but so far so good.

This was what I found: " ini_set ("session.cookie_domain",".my.site.com"); " with the dot before my.site.com doing the work. If things don't work out I'll let you know...

Cheers,
John