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standard easy way to set up a registration/logon cookie? [message #176344]

Mon, 26 December 2011 17:23

The Natural Philosoph
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Someone wants to set up a specialist discussion site: I want to keep it
simple so I don't want to use a pre packaged solution.

Essentially he needs to let users comment on topics, and have some
control over spam and abuse, hence registration and a name/password combo.

But given the technical lack of sophistication of the target audience,
persistent cookies would be a good thing to allow them to stay logged in
indefinitely (or not if the desire)

I'd like to hand out some random cookie when they register, or log in
and stick it in the database, together with a time value which, if they
don't want to 'persist' would be ignored if it was out of date.

Then write a simple PHP module that says 'if the cookie is valid, you
are Joe Bloggs and you can post away' else if not, throw them into a
login/registration screen.

Is 'sessions' any real help here? Or is it just easier to set and
retrieve a cookie at a more basic level?

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		standard easy way to set up a registration/logon cookie? By: The Natural Philosoph on Mon, 26 December 2011 17:23
		Re: standard easy way to set up a registration/logon cookie? By: houghi on Mon, 26 December 2011 17:50
		Re: standard easy way to set up a registration/logon cookie? By: Allodoxaphobia on Mon, 26 December 2011 21:40
		Re: standard easy way to set up a registration/logon cookie? By: houghi on Tue, 27 December 2011 17:47
		Re: standard easy way to set up a registration/logon cookie? By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 27 December 2011 20:59
		Re: standard easy way to set up a registration/logon cookie? By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 27 December 2011 20:49
		Re: standard easy way to set up a registration/logon cookie? By: r.mariotti on Mon, 26 December 2011 23:00
		Re: standard easy way to set up a registration/logon cookie? By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 27 December 2011 21:06

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