Posted by jcage on 01/07/08 05:50

On Jan 6, 9:43 pm, "J.O. Aho" <u...@example.net> wrote:
> jc...@lycos.com wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I have a form that uses a basic passphrase to ensure an employee user
> > is who they say they are. One field uses 'text' as the input type and
> > the other uses 'password'. When a query has been run, a user can
> > click the browser back button and the name is still there intact but
> > the password field is blank. My question is, what would the 'SESSION'
> > code look like that would allow a user to click their back button
> > where the 'userpass' field holds the original passphrase in the same
> > manner the browser holds the user name within the text field?
>
> Using Session will require that the user is logged in before the password will
> be there.
>
> --- page that gets the username/password ---
> session_start();
> $_SESSION['password']=$_POST['userpass']; // we assume you use default post
> --- eoe ---
>
> --- the login form ---
> <td>User Password:</td><td align="left"><input type="password"
> name="userpass" size="29" maxlength="30" value="<?php echo
> $_SESSION['password']; ?>"></td></tr>
> --- eoe ---
>
> If you want the password to be stored between sessions, then you have to use
> cookies, which means you store the password in plain text on the client computer.
>
> I suggest you talk with the system administration and ask if it would be
> possible to upgrade the browsers to a more modern one, visit mozilla.org if
> you want a browser that can store both the username and password and on top of
> all encrypts the password it stores.
>
> --
>
> //Aho

Hmmm... Guess I'm back to looking at using cookies. :-) As I
searched for a solution, I happened across http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/120/0.php
and tweaked some code to get it to return 'something' in the password
field, just not what I was looking for. thanks for the replies, all...

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