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davidmichaelt
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October 2, 2010
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problem with cflogin

  • October 2, 2010
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hello everybody,

I am very new to this forum and cold fusion, actually i first used cold fusion about a week ago so my coding is very basic. What i am trying to achieve is a member login page on my website where users can just enter my site and if they want to login the can press the link "login". i have already created a member register page that it fully working and sends the information that the user enters to my database.

The software i am using is: cold fusion developer edition in dreamweaver, and mysql workbench.

I have already started coding witch i will paste bellow. I have created a cfc for my loginpage.cfm and i am using <cflogin> in the cfc.

Heres all of the code i have created on the memberlogin.cfc file:

<cfcomponent>
<cffunction name="memberlogin" access="public" returntype="void">

<cflogin>
  <cfif IsDefined("form.email")>
            <cfquery datasource="#application.datasource#"
                name="quser">
                    SELECT * FROM members
                    WHERE email='#form.email#'
                    AND password='#form.password#'
     
            </cfquery>
  
   <cfif quser.recordcount IS 1>
           </cfif>
            <cfloginuser name="#quser.email#"
            password="#form.password#"
            roles="#quser.roles#">
          

    </cflogin>

</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>

And here is the code in the top of my login.cfm file:

<cfinvoke
component="Fusionmods.cf.cfc.memberlogin"
method="memberlogin">
</cfinvoke>

The problem i have no idea if i can login, i mean when i look at a email and password from my database and type it in to the login page on my site i have no idea weather i am logged in or not

I was wondering if anybody could tell me how i could add a automatic link so that when a member has sucessfully logged in it takes them to the home page and if they loggin incorrectly the login page appears again??

Thank you.

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    ecobb
    ecobb
    Inspiring
    October 5, 2010

    Read through this and see if it helps.  It's a little outdated (Application.cfm, no CFCs), but it should give you a good overview of cflogin and how to use it in your application. From there you should be able to port the logic over to your CFC.

    http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=5186

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    Little_Mike
    Known Participant
    October 2, 2010

    Do members have to log-in to use the site, or do they just need to log-in to get their session registered (much like a forum browser vs forum poster)?

    If you want to login users via the <cflogin> tag, you always want to use the j_username and j_password as the form names.  ColdFusion is built in to listen to any forms passed with those variable names.  Also, the <cflogin> tag should always sit in the application.cfm/cfc page.

    Have you read the "Security CF Applications" tutorial?  That may help.  http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/appSecurity_01.html#1100022

    You can use that as a good start.  In your application page <cflogin> tag, you can define whether or not someone is logged in by using session variables and the built in function #getAuthuser()#.  If you are not logged in, getAuthUser() will return 0.  That is an easy way to tell if someone is logged into the website.

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