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Help with User supplied content site, Kind of like a very small scale myspace...
Moshambi
1 Sep, 2008 - 10:02 PM
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I have a site where I want users to log in and when they do they will have their own page where they can upload their pics and maybe even a blog. I have got the log in part done already but I don't know where to even start for the User's Page...could someone maybe point me in a good direction to take? How would I even go about doing this?

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2 Sep, 2008 - 12:50 AM
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While your site may actually use PHP, this isn't a question about code. I'm going to move this to Site Check, because you are asking for help with the layout & design of the site. biggrin.gif icon_up.gif
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2 Sep, 2008 - 06:58 AM
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well that's my problem, I don't know how I should begin to code it... I tried to append ?=blahblahblah in the link but I don't know if thats how I should do it or if that's even secure.
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sorry to sound desperate but I just really wanna get this project rolling so does anyone have any ideas?
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2 Sep, 2008 - 08:10 PM
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For general viewing of a page ?blahblahbah works fine. When people are editing the page that also works fine, you just have to make sure that they are updating their own page and not someone else's. While it isn't secure, as long as they log out afterwards (when using a public computer) nobody else will be able to edit the page without knowing the other person's account information.

REALIZE - If you have a security flaw/hole in your login script people may get angry with you and not use the site (as they could have content changed or edited without their knowledge).
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2 Sep, 2008 - 09:07 PM
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ok thanks BetaWar that helped me understand it a little more...

All i want to do with the site is for the user to login and upload their own pictures, no editing like myspace or any of that jazz... then the pictures will just get added to a predefined template that I will make.

Now for the ?blahblahblah part, how do i do that in PHP, I tried doing it for a link but it would not show up in the URL...

Here is how I tried:

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<?php

echo "<a href='blah.php?username='" . $username . "'>My Page</a>";

?>


I don't know if I am doing this correctly cause I am still learning this language...

Thanks for any help!
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4 Sep, 2008 - 04:46 AM
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For a normal link (like to look at someone's page) that is fine. If you want to allow someone to edit their page do a general link like
?blahblahblah=editPage
and then check the user's cookie / session to allow them to edit their own page, and not someone else's.

File uploading is a fairly simple application, you can find it all over google.

Just make sure that you have read a couple of the tutorials on making safe sql statements and make sure that your forms use post when doing anything that may even possibly be private.
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Ok thank you again. I just though of another way that maybe i could do this...is there a way to create a new folder or .htm/.php file using php?

Cuz then i could just create a folder for the user and then inside of that place their page, so when they upload pics its all uploaded to their own folder. Please let me know if this is a bad idea?
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10 Sep, 2008 - 03:38 PM
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I'll move this to Web Development, I think your question is more of "help me develop this" than "rate what I developed"


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11 Sep, 2008 - 08:05 AM
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thank you gabe that's why i originally postd it in php. now hopefully some one can help me figure this out smile.gif im still searching the net for answers too though...

Any help is appreciated!
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Ok so I found out I was trying to do it the right way the whole time but I just had a bug in my code that was making it not work correctly. Now that I have found it out though I just have a security question...

If I use this:
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if(isset($_POST['btnLogin']))
{
if ($count == 1) {
     $_SESSION['loggedIn'] = "true";
     $_SESSION['user'] = $username;
}
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with this:

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echo "<a href='userpage.php?user=" . $username . "' /> My Page </a><br />";


Now say I log in as moshambi it will make the link look like this:


userpage.php?user=moshambi


Now on this page I can use this to load all the users images and such...I am just wondering if that is secure or not?

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