PHP login and get user information

Question

How can I get the user information when the user successfully login?

Here is my login.php code

Answer 1

You already have username and password coming from the POST array, you can store them in session like this:

session_start(); // this will go on top of the page
.........

if($count == 1) {
    session_register(username);
    session_register(password);

    $_SESSION['username'] = $_POST['username']; // store username
    $_SESSION['password'] = $_POST['password']; // store password

    header('location: index.php');
  }
  else {
    $error = "Invalid Username or Password Please Try Again";
  }

Later you can get them like:

echo $_SESSION['username'];
echo $_SESSION['password'];

Note that you should destroy them in session logout file.

Note 2 session_register has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0. Simply use $_SESSION array for storing your values.