Question

When my users log into the website their first name, last name and ID are missing from the session data because my session data is coded to take post data and submit into the session table in my database.

Because user logs in with email and password in my session data only email appears and nothing else does.

How can I make first name, last name and id appear in my session table in my db? I want to some how grab these details from the database when user is logging in and provide it in my $u_data array so it get’s posted upload login success.

Here is my code:

<?php
class Login_Model extends CI_Model {


    public function checkLogin() {

            $this->db->where('email', $this->input->post('email')); //compare db email to email entered in form
            $this->db->where('password', $this->hashed()); //compare db password to hashed user password
            $query = $this->db->get('users'); //get the above info from 'user' table

            if ($query->num_rows() == 1) { //if number of rows returned is 1

            $u_data = array( //new variable with session data
                'user_id' => $this->db->insert_id(),
                'email' => $this->input->post('email'),
                'first_name' => $this->input->post('first_name'),
                'last_name' => $this->input->post('last_name'),
                'logged_in' => TRUE
            );

            $this->session->set_userdata($u_data); //send data from variable to db session
            return TRUE;

       } else {
            return FALSE;
       }
 }


   public function hashed() { //hashing method

            // sha1 and salt password
            $password = $this->encrypt->sha1($this->input->post('password')); //encrypt user password
            $salt = $this->config->item('encryption_key'); //grab static salt from config file

            $start_hash = sha1($salt . $password);
            $end_hash = sha1($password . $salt);
            $hashed = sha1($start_hash . $password . $end_hash);
            return $hashed;
}

}

Answer 1

The following solved this issue for me. I looked at one of my old questions on here and used my common sense.

I made this edit to my code.

if ($query->num_rows() == 1) { //if number of rows returned is 1

      $user = $query->result();

                $u_data = array( //new variable with session data
                    'user_id' => $user[0]->id,
                    'email' => $this->input->post('email'),
                    'first_name' => $user[0]->first_name,
                    'last_name' => $user[0]->last_name,
                    'logged_in' => TRUE
                );