Question

i am using the following password code http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/password-protect.php

it is working fine but when i try to echo out the logged in user’s info, i am only able to do it once, at the time of login. after that if i refresh the page, the page is still accessible but the logged in user’s name is not echoed out
can someone help me with this
i have the following code on the first line of the pages that i want to protect

<?php require("/home/abcd/abcd/password_protect.php"); ?>

i am echoing out the name by using

echo "Welcome $login";

Answer 1

What the script basically does is that it has a pre-initialised list of login and passwords stored in the array $LOGIN_INFORMATION .

$LOGIN_INFORMATION = array(
  'zubrag' => 'root',
  'test' => 'testpass',
  'admin' => 'passwd'
);

Now it takes a login/password combination from the user and matches with the stored values.
As per your question , you want to show the name of the authenticated user.

For that you can use a session

At the start of the page(Very first line) write

`session_start();`

then
$_SESSION['username'] = $username //the authenticated username

Now at the beginning of every page where you want to print the name ,write

session_start();

then

echo $_SESSION['username'];

After you are done and you want to log out ( or cancel the session) write

session_unregister('username');