Login form text help

Hi

I have got a login page and after I log in, it takes me to a page I set in the coding which is great but I want to display some text or have a popup box saying I have successfully logged in, is that possible and if so how do I do it or can someone point me in the right direction please

Thank you in advance

Ian

i assume that part of your login you are setting session variables etc, so you should be able to check to see if they are logged in and echo a welcome message, or if you really must have a popup, echo out a css/div 'popup' or use javascript alert(). Popups are crazy annoying though, so i personally would only use them in dev, not live.

You could equally issue a redirect or echo out the login form if they hit that page and are not logged in.

Hi,

checking the standard session values doesn't work, because that doesn't tell you if the user has just logged in.

You could simply pass an URL parameter saying "login=true" or something. Of course you could do the same thing with an extra cookie or session value, but I find that kind of oversized. You'd also need to explicitly remove it after the first visit.