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Re: standard easy way to set up a registration/logon cookie? [message #176345 is a reply to message #176344]

Mon, 26 December 2011 17:50

houghi
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 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.

Simple in layout? Simple in options? Simple in maintanance? Simple in
coding? Simple for the users?

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

I would go for a pre-packaged solution. That would be simple for the
developer. Just turn off anything you do not want or need. When you
start developing from 0, you will at some point in the future be asked
to add X, Y and Z and then you will notice how you need to start over
again, because that specific task is not possible.

> 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 don't want to 'persist' would be ignored if it was out of date.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?

Session cookies are for, uh, sessions. I would just create a semi-random
cookie that is lined to the user. This can be easily (dfrom the users
point of view) be enabled or disabled with "Please keep me logged in" or
something similar. If this is set, the cookie is set, if not it isn't.

You could even link it to the last time logged in and if it is more then
1 week or 1 month ago, logging in is a must.

You could even do it is ASP as this whole thing has not much to do with
php.

houghi
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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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