Comments on: [PHP 5 + XML]: XML Login

By: e11world

e11world — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:42:58 +0000

This is a very nice tutorial. I added a function where it logs the date and time for each user each time they login. I hope someone finds it useful.
Add this function before (not sure if it matters) your code
function log_login($username){
$file = fopen(“logged_in.txt”, “a+”);
if ($file != null){
$time = localtime(time(), true);
$str = sprintf(“User \”$username\” logged in on %s at (%d:%d:%d). \r\n”,
date(“Y-m-d”),
$time["tm_hour"],
$time["tm_min"],
$time["tm_sec"],
$username);
fwrite($file, $str);
fclose($file);
}
}

and call it log_login($username); on login success

By: Madhu

Madhu — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:06:41 +0000

I tried this in my .php file,

$xml = simplexml_load_file(‘$file’);
var_dump($xml);

and the output is bool(false).I am not sure what is stopping the file from being loaded. I even tried to load it as a string with the help of this, but still no luck.
$xml = simplexml_load_string(file_get_contents(‘login.xml’));

I tried with hard coding the URL,still no luck. Am I missing something here. I am sorry, I am new to PHP.

Regards
V.C.Madhu

By: Jacko

Jacko — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:46:22 +0000

Tried and tested here and all working fine, just 1 question, how do i once i have re-directed a user logged on to whateverblahblah.html, show the logged on users name in a Welcome statement…..ie user logs on correctly and then the redirected page that shows…Welcome John Doe etc??

By: Madhu

Madhu — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:02:11 +0000

Hi,
Whatever I do.. I keep getting the same error . I changed the whole thing,but its not working.

By: Root Ninja

Root Ninja — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:47:48 +0000

For moi.

If you use the above solution that should fix your first problem.

For the second it depends on what you want to happen when a user is logged in. If you want the user to be directed to another page, type:
header(“Location: http://www.domain.uk/file.html“);

in place of:
echo “Valid user logged in!”;

If you do this I would suggest setting the new page to receive a variable that confirms the user is logged in, so that users can just go directly to the page using the URL.

Enjoy

By: Root Ninja

Root Ninja — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:36:49 +0000

Solution for the “user is inactive” error.

Hi all, I read the error you have found, and so tested the code myself to find that I too had the problem and so searched out the solution.

Its a tricky one to spot, but most of you will have copied and pasted the code, herein lies your problem. Simply manually type the “‘” marks in $username = ['username']; and $password = ['$password'];

Problem solved!

By: moi

moi — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:45:45 +0000

Hi, im hitting a couple of probs.

1) says user inactive when its set to 1
2) if there is a successful log in – nothing happens. Where is the redirect code to the content?

By: sumit

sumit — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:34:10 +0000

I’m always getting the msg which pervious discussed. How can i solve it?

By: sumit

sumit — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:32:50 +0000

I’m always get the msg “user is inactive”. How can i solve it?

By: Slim

Slim — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:32:33 +0000

Hey, nevermind my previous post. I followed your structure for storing the user details, and everything is working fine. Thank you for a great, yet simple tutorial! Cheers mate!