Question

I would like to be able to redirect a user to a different page based on their login name. At the moment, the code below redirects all users to the same page (role.php) no matter what their login is. I have two users: student and tutor. Both of these users are redirected to role.php.
However, I would like to redirect student user to role.php and tutor user to record.php. I thought about doing a couple of if statements if member_id is 1, then redirect to role.php and if member_id is 2, then redirect to record.php. But was unable to do so.

Table structure for members table from where login credentials are checked is as follows:

member_id: 1 or 2
login: student, tutor
passwd: separate password for each user – encrypted with md5.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

//Create query
    $qry="SELECT * FROM members WHERE login='$login' AND passwd='".md5($_POST['password'])."'";
    $result=mysql_query($qry);

    //Check whether the query was successful or not
    if($result) {
        if(mysql_num_rows($result) == 1) {
            //Login Successful
            session_regenerate_id();
            $member = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
            $_SESSION['SESS_MEMBER_ID'] = $member['member_id'];
            session_write_close();
            header("location: role.php");
            exit();
        }else {
            //Login failed
            header("location: login-failed.php");
            exit();
        }
    }else {
        die("Query failed");
    }

EDIT: Switch statement used but now redirects to record.php for all users.I think I’m not using the switch statement correctly.

$login="student";
            $login="tutor";

            switch ($login)
            {
            case "student":
            header("location: role.php");   
            break;

            case "tutor":
            header("location: readonlystu.php");    
            break;
            }

Answer 1

I’d go for an switch statement on the role.

switch($iRoleId)
{
    case ROLE_STUDENT:
        // do stuff
        break;
    case ROLE_TUTOR:
        // do stuff
        break;
 }