I have a login script that allows the users to automatically login when they return to the site later. My problem is that when the user returns to the site they are not logged in automatically, then have to click a link(any link) and then the site will recognize them and log them in?!?!?!

This is done by cookies, i cannot exactly give you the script as it contains a lot of valuable information so can you tell me what i can do to tell me what i can do to make a script set cookies so that when they return next time the script picks up cookies right away????


Thanks all in advance!

The point when your application is checking for the login cookie, try doing an httpd redirect (using headers) to the visited page to enable logged status.

Alternatively, set the correct variables at the beginning of your script. For example, let's say that I have $_SESSION['username'] as the username for someone when logged in (and that's it). Then, at the top of each script I include a file which will check for cookies (say $_COOKIE['auto_login'] for auto logging in) and set the proper session variable in that script. Since it will then be available to all scripts you'll have the user logged in.

erm maybe you need to extend the "session" if they are active or not. then when they leave and come back they will still be logged in you can set the time in the php form from 1 second to 1 day.