Pass user id along in php code?

PHP
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Hello. Pretty new to php, and was wondering if someone point me in the right direction? I am assuming this is pretty easy for more experiences php’ers

Basically I just need a box on my homepage where users can type in their username, and hit ‘login’… from there it will take them to that directory on the website.

ie:say my site is www.angorashop.com, they enter a user name of testuser into the box, hit login, and it simply redirects them to www.angorashop.com/testuser

Thanks ahead of time!

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Hi,maybe i can help, Lets assume that you already click the link log-in.

this is your form login.php


     if(isset($_POST['login'])){
            $username = $_POST['username'];
            $password = $_POST['password'];

        $ok =  loginUser($username,$password);

          if($ok == "success"){
                 header('location:www.angorashop.com/testuser');
          }
         else
             echo "Invalid username and password";
    }





  <form method="post" action="<?php echo htmlentities($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); ?>">
   <label>your username</label>
   <input type="text" name="username">
     <label>your password</label>
   <input type="text name="password">
   <input type="submit" name="login">
</form>
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Hmm… perhaps I didn’t do a good job at explaining :slight_smile:

There will be no password involved on the first screen. This will simply be used to collect their username, and pass it through to the URL.

ie: Enter username: (lets say they enter jemz)… They click ‘proceed’ … and it takes them to http://angorashop.com/jemz

Make sense?

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Any input fields from an HTML form with either end up in the $_GET or $_POST reserved variables (depending on the form’s method attribute).

To redirect users to another page using PHP, you can use this:

header("Location: http://example.org");