[RELEASE v2] Homepage Login on non-vB page

Ok....this is my first hack. It's small and should be very straight forward.

The source of this hack is a thread that started in the main Code Hacks forum by a user looking for a hack that would allow their members to log in from the main home page of their site. Once logged in, it would display a Welcome message when the logged in member returned to the home page.

The original source was provided by Demolition, but members were having problems with getting the hack to run.

Warning/Disclaimer: I am not a well seasoned PHP programmer. I get by as best I can, but usually learn from example and tinkering. I have changed the PHP coding around slightly, and added much more HTML in order to format the input fields etc. This hack was tested using Internet Explorer 5.5 and Netscat 4.7. I have verified that it works in both OS's several times. I am also running the latest version of PHP on my server, so I'm not sure how to help those of you that are running PHP3, but I'll do the best I can. I won't make any promises though. I plan on continuing to work on this as well as add a few more features to it as time permits.

Download the attached file and edit it using a text editor of your choice. Add the pathway to your forums directory where noted. Save the file as a PHP file to your main forums directory. If your site's home page is an HTML document you will have to call the PHP file using a server side include. If you're not sure how to do this, you should search the forums here as this topic has already been covered several times.

[badmeetsevil-]

Rob: The Homepage Logon to any page you want is possible. I just saw it in action at phpportals.com. Do you have a est on when you'll start/finish it?

[Hooper]

I don't understand this hack. I merely used the forumhome_logincode in my front page design.

[badmeetsevil-]

Link?

[Alien]

I've tried a million variations listed by everyone here, and I still cannot get mine to function.

I can get the login form to work, but it shows up EVERY time even when the user is logged in and of course has a cookie set.

So what needs to be done to get it to not show the form and detect the users login correctly so it won't show the form?

Otherwise the login form itself works excellent, it just prompts to login every time which isn't really desired..

Thanks guys.

[Blackangel]

Originally posted by Rostor
Hi All,
it works but sometimes give me an error on header

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\XXXXX\home.php:11) in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\XXXXX\forum\admin\functions.php on line 1459

Someone can help me plz ?

i get the same error ...

homepage working if i call homepage.php directly

but if i include or require it on php page .... et get this error.

Any tips ?

[certify]

Juan are you still having this problem?

I just got that fix 2 weeks ago, probably I can help.

[Juan]

Thank you. I've moved to vbportal so now I don't have the need.

[certify]

What is vbportal?

[Juan]

<a href="http://phpportals.com" target="_blank">http://phpportals.com</a>

[certify]

WoW, looks great... wish I seen this ealier.