How to create a personal page for each logged in user to my website - HTML Forums

jgray805 · 08-01-2008, 04:20 PM

Hi,

I am trying to create a personal page for each one of my registered users.

I have already set up a login/logout area on my website, but now i want it so that when users log in, they go to their own specific page.

my website is http://www.mytodostuff.com

i hope my question makes sense... i basically am trying to figure out how i can make it so registered users can log on and view their own personal page that they will get when they register.

if anyone can help me figure this out, it would be greatly appriciated
thanks for taking the time to read this, and thank you even more if you try and help me out.

NOTE: right now i have it so when users login, every user goes to the same page.
thats the only way i know how to do it so far.

tnowalk · 08-01-2008, 05:36 PM

How are you storing the user's data?

One way you could do it is have the user's data stored in a database and when they log in you retrieve the data and display it. By doing it this way you will only need to create 1 page then load the data dynamically for each user.

Trevor

jgray805 · 08-03-2008, 03:50 PM

yes, i am using a database to store all the users..

im not really sure how the coding of it works, because i got it from a tutorial but i know its a database, and in my host manager i had to create a database and in my host manager i can view all of the users in that database.

jgray805 · 08-19-2008, 04:42 PM

tnowalk or anybody else that might know....

in reply to:

Quote:

One way you could do it is have the user's data stored in a database and when they log in you retrieve the data and display it. By doing it this way you will only need to create 1 page then load the data dynamically for each user.

this is what i want to do...
is there any way u can help me figure out how to actually impliment this strategy?

palme · 08-23-2008, 12:10 AM

Hi
that is depend of how big a user's homepage is.is it only 1 page without pic and etc.
or more complex.
i think in your database shall min. 3 felts with navn forexample username, pass, directoryname and if user login that directoryname dynamically be load.

Paul · 08-23-2008, 12:11 PM

You will have to post your entire program to get that kind of help. But it might be better for you to read some more PHP tutorials so that you can at least make an attempt at programming this on your own and then get help as you need it.

jgray805 · 08-23-2008, 06:16 PM

hey palme
for now i just want to get it so each user has their own homepage...
pictures are not necessary right now, but eventually i will want them to be able to add pictures...
right now i mainly want it so their homepage can have a bunch of links to differnt websites.

jgray805 · 08-23-2008, 10:16 PM

I think i thought of a way to explain what i am trying to do easier, and i might be closer to figuring it out than i think..

Right now, whenever anybody logins on my site, every person is directed to sample_page2.php of my site..

i think i just need to add some type of code into where the user is redirected when they login.....

so instead of everyone logging in and going to sample_page2.php,
each person who logs in will go to their own page...

EXAMPLE:
User 1 will be redirected to user1.php when logging in
User 2 will be redirected to user2.php
User 3 will be redirected to user3.php
....etc...

does that help explain what i am trying to do any better?
and am i right about all i need is a small piece of code to make this happen?

jgray805 · 08-31-2008, 05:54 PM

Can anyone help me?
or would i be just paying someone to do this for me?
im stuck, but i really want to continue my website..

paul_norman_81 · 09-01-2008, 07:33 AM

I could be wrong, but it sounds like all you want to do is re-direct people to different pages when they log in... Presumably you check your database and set a session variable when they log in anyway, so you might have something like this:

PHP Code:


			
<?php



# Login script here....



# Set your session (whatever you set)

$_SESSION['id'] = 42;



# Redirect the user

header('Location: http://www.mytodostuff.com/profile.php');

exit;

You then use the session id variable in the profile.php page to query the database and load the users profile (i.e. their own profile).

When a user views someone elses profile have them pass in a $_GET variable (profile.php?user=42) to override the session id (if one exists). You can neaten this up however you like (read up on apache rewrite rules for ideas).

If someone loads profile.php without being logged in, and without passing a user variable you could then redirect them to the registration page (or wherever you like). The same is true for none registrered users trying to view someone.

Hope this puts you on the right track.

Cheers,

Paul

Horus_Kol · 09-01-2008, 07:38 AM

I was reading this thread and thought "this is familiar"...

I just realised that this is the THIRD thread you've started on this JGray...

This is gonna confuse the heck out of people

Please continue at the newer thread