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there is a function isadministrator() in an includes file which checks for the existence of a certain cookie, yet in the footer there are exceptions in his logic for the login and logout page. can someone please go over with me why its not working on these two pages: on login.php : basically when the pass and user is correct the server sends a cookie to the client but its not available to be read right away unless you refresh the page? on logout,php: destroys the cookie by setting it to false and its time in the past… so then why wouldnt isadministrator work? why does the bro -
Chapter 13 page 421 creating a receipt page.... Wondering if anyone else had this issue or if anyone can recommend a work around... For the query to grab the order info .. this is not working "SHA1(email)=?".. I have echo out $email_hash and and I have echo out echo sha1(email address in the order)....they are the same... I am wondering if there is a mysqli issue when using sha1? -
Hello All, Well I'm wrapping up the last part of this book and seem to have hit a roadblock. On the first Ch. 13 Pursue assignment that tells you to make the login form sticky, I can't seem to get it to work and I've been able to get all of the previous ones pretty quickly. I know it'll probably be something that makes me feel silly after I figure it out, but after 2 hours of mixing and rearranging code, I keep coming back to the same thing and get somewhat similar results each time. Aside from it not working properly, when I put my code in the value attribute, it shows up as code in th -
In the Chapter 13 web app, cookies are used to verify if a person has administrator access. It seems that using a cookie is similar to a password in the way that in the book, Larry says to set a cookie with sort of a random name and value. For instance, don't set a cookie with the name of 'login' and the value of 'true' (instead a cookie named Samuel is set with a value of Clemens). But, because cookies are easily viewed once they are set, for example using firebug on firefox, it seems like this is not the best method for veirifying who has access to a site and who doesn't. For exa