Creating a dynamic log in page with php

Report · Nov 05, 2009

I'm fairly new to web development and I'm trying to create a page that clients can go to, log in, and review drafts of the video work we produce for them.

I've developed a php page that works. The client can enter their user name and password and log in to a page. I've got a mysql databse and I've used the log in user behaviour that comes with dreamweaver.

The problem I have is that I'm not sure how to make the page redirect the client to the appropriate page. Right now the client can log in but I'm only able to to get the site to redirect them to the same page. I'd like to be able for each client to log in and only see their own videos.

Is their another behaviour available for php sites that would allow me to accomplish this? I downloaded a coldfusion behaviour that allow for dymanic log-in but I couldn't get my testing server to acknowledge that I have coldfusion installed on my computer. Ideally I'd like a behaviour that works with my php page.

Thanks

Report · Nov 05, 2009

Depending on the situation, the best solution is often to redirect everyone to the same page that will be customized with their specific dynamic data. So you use the user id to retrieve the user's data and display it on that page.