I am looking for a good but simple tutorial for my session based members area. This is going to be like a myspace.com thing mixed with a geocities.com thing but not so myspace-geocities.com 'ish. I already have the register/login script working and a few other cool features. I am just looking for some tips and ideas that I might not be thinking about.

I guess anything php & sql session based stuff with a security thing sticking out the side would be helpfull. I have found a few articles but have not been inspired to do much just yet. I know how to do what I want to do but I am looking for a muze...

I will be looking for help on my project after I have fun with it for a few months

This is a pretty good tutorial:
http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/session.php

However, it was written for PHP 4 and uses examples of depreciated methods such as session_register() and session_unregister()

I simply map user data into the session on a successfull login.

$row = mysq_fetch_row($result) // where result is the answer from you login details
$_SESSION['member'] = $row;

Now you can use SESSION on any page on the site. If you site takes on large numbers of hits ensure you only pull out the fields from the DB that you will require in subsequent pages.

I.E

A username can be retrieved via $_SESSION['member']['username'].


Ibbo

thanks. I will read that tutorial tonight and see if it gives me some ideas.

Quick question... is there any cool features you would like to see offered that sites like myspace, friendster, geocities...ect. do not offer. I am working on a few things now that most of the other sites don't have....yet....but nothing that is going to make my script stand out. all ideas are welcome.

I don't want to share what is in the works as of now because i do not want other sites to take my ideas and say they did it first. Thanks again

I am using a script I found phpfreaks for my passwords....

function makeRandomPassword() { 
  $salt = "abchefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz0123456789"; 
  srand((double)microtime()*1000000);  
      $i = 0; 
      while ($i <= 7) { 
            $num = rand() % 33; 
            $tmp = substr($salt, $num, 1); 
            $pass = $pass . $tmp; 
            $i++; 
      } 
      return $pass; 
} 
$random_password = makeRandomPassword(); 
$db_password = md5($random_password);

My surrent regestration page uses md5 encryption when it makes a random password. Cool script i found an am glad to share it. The script works for me right now but I might want to change the entire register script later. What do you think?

Random Password on PHP Freaks: ( got to give a credit because its not my script )
http://www.phpfreaks.com/quickcode/R...nerator/56.php