Posted by Robert Cummings on 08/25/05 07:40

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 00:19, George B wrote:
> Robert Cummings wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 00:10, George B wrote:
> >
> >>Ok, I am doing a sort of a project right now... It is like a php chat
> >>room that records every message into a database. Now, on the first post
> >>I want it to like set the name, so on first post it would say Name: and
> >>you set your name, then on every other message you post it just says
> >>Posted by and remembers your name from the last entry. Is this anyhow
> >>possible?
> >
> >
> > Check session... if no name, display name prompt, otherwise don't
> > display name prompt.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rob.
> which would I choose.
> http://us2.php.net/manual-lookup.php?pattern=sessions


In brief:

if( isset( $_POST['userName'] ) && !empty( trim( $_POST['userName'] ) )
)
{
//
// Save userName to session.
//
$_SESSION['userName'] = trim( $_POST['userName'] );
}

if( isset( $_POST['message'] ) && !empty( trim( $_POST['message'] ) )
&&
isset( $_SESSION['userName'] ) )
{
//
// Handle submission of message.
//
}

if( !isset( $_SESSION['userName'] ) )
{
//
// Display user name prompt.
//
}


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