login and display username?

Question

i have created a login page (php/mysql) with username and
password boxes. when the form is submitted the mainpage loads up.

i want the main page to be specific to that user, so i want
their name to appear in the first line. eg.. Welcome back 'David'

I read a tutorial in the past that tought me to send the
users id in the URL and then create a record set on the mainpage
that was filtered by the URL parameter.

I have forgotten how to do this and the tutorial is no longer
available on Adobe's site.

can anyone tell me how to do this? Thanks in advance,

Gavin
ps. the original tutorial was called something like 'how to
build a blog in dreamweaver with php and sql'

godonholiday · Accepted Answer

THANKS MATE, all sorted now.

Newsgroup_User · Answer

You need to do some research on session variables. When you log people
in there name is jplaced in a session variable and then you can display
it on each and every page. The tutorial should have discussed these
session variables.

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