I made this really basic phpbb login below. When some one is already loged in i want the script to say welcome [user name].

Forum Login

<form action="http://www.somplanet.com/forums/login.php" method="post" target="_top">

Username: <input type="text" name="username" size="25" maxlength="40" value="" />

Password: <input type="password" name="password" size="25" maxlength="32" />

<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="" /><input type="submit" name="login" class="mainoption" value="Log in" />

</form>

whats the name you've used to prefix the PHPBB cookie?? (this is found somewhere in your Administration Panel under one of the settings) then i can give u a whole code for it

the cookie name is phpbb2mysql

ok, so turns out you don't actually need the cookie name :P

This little hack should work, but since i've not tested it (as i dont need it!) i'm not too sure, but here goes.

PHP Code:

<?php

$phpbb_root_path = you need to find out this, and place it here;

include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.php');

$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX);
init_userprefs($userdata);

if ( $userdata['session_logged_in'] )
   $username = $userdata['username'];
{ echo "Welcome $username"; } else {
echo('
Forum Login

<form action="http://www.somplanet.com/forums/login.php" method="post" target="_top">

Username: <input type="text" name="username" size="25" maxlength="40" value="" />

Password: <input type="password" name="password" size="25" maxlength="32" />

<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="" /><input type="submit" name="login" class="mainoption" value="Log in" />

</form>');
}
?>

Like i said, this is completely untested - and my formatting is awful!! If this does not work, have u tried the PHPBB forums?? they openly post many hacks.