Discussion 357 Comments

1. leo says:

   November 11, 2011 at 9:40 am

   I am getting the “You are NOT authorized’ message again and again. Any help?

   This is what is in my Login class:

   function validate_credentials()
   {
   $this->load->model(‘membership_model’);
   $query = $this->membership_model->validate();

   if($query) // if the user’s credentials are validated
   {
   $data = array(
   ‘username’ => $this->input->post(‘username’),
   ‘is_logged_in’ => true
   );

   $this->session->set_userdata($data);
   redirect(‘chat/index’);
   }
   else
   {
   $this->index();
   }
   }

   This is the similar to the “Site” class in the TUT.

   class Chat extends CI_Controller {

   public function __construct()
   {
   parent::__construct();
   $this->is_logged_in();
   }

   public function index()
   {
   $data['main_content'] = ‘chat_view’;
   $data['user_id'] = $this->session->userdata(‘username’);
   $this->load->view(‘includes/template’, $data);
   }

   function is_logged_in()
   {
   $is_logged_in = $this->session->userdata(‘is_logged_in’);
   if(!isset($is_logged_in) || $is_logged_in != true)
   {
   echo ‘You don\’t have permission to access this page. Login‘;
   die();
   $this->load->view(‘login_form’);
   }
   }
   }

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   • radum says:

     February 10, 2012 at 1:41 pm

     If you are testing on localhost, go to config and see if this settings work for you

     $config['sess_cookie_name'] = ‘cisession’;
     $config['sess_expiration'] = 7200;
     $config['sess_expire_on_close'] = TRUE;
     $config['sess_encrypt_cookie'] = TRUE;
     $config['sess_use_database'] = TRUE;
     $config['sess_table_name'] = ‘ci_sessions’;
     $config['sess_match_ip'] = TRUE;
     $config['sess_match_useragent'] = TRUE;
     $config['sess_time_to_update'] = 300;

     $config['cookie_prefix'] = ”;
     $config['cookie_domain'] = ”;
     $config['cookie_path'] = ‘/’;
     $config['cookie_secure'] = FALSE;

     Be sure to clear cache and empty the ci_session table from the db.

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2. marlon ansale says:

   November 14, 2011 at 1:18 am

   I got error when using mysql_num_rows is it deprecated? I could not logged in the account i use this code to my class mebership_model

   function validate(){
   $condition = FALSE;
   $this->db->where(‘username’, $this->input->post(‘username’));
   $this->db->where(‘password’, md5($this->input->post(‘password’)));
   $query = $this->db->get(‘login’);

   if($query->num_rows == 1){
   $condition = TRUE;
   }

   return $condition;
   }

   please hel[ >:(..,

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3. CIBeginner says:

   November 22, 2011 at 10:27 am

   Hi! thank you very much for your tutorials! It is really helping me a lot, we have a CI project (given today) due after two days, and because i have no background in php and CI, I was sure that I won’t be able to do it. But, your videos gave me hope! I understand CI better now, thank you again!
   I just have a few questions: (I hope you don’t mind!)

   1) how would I check if the user is an admin? In my database, I have a field named Is_admin which has the value 1 if the user is an admin, a link in the home page will be enabled/disabledd, if not it is not visible/enabled…

   2) How can I display an message prompt whenever the user enters invalid/empty information?

   again thank you very much for your superb tutorials and your help :)

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4. zahid says:

   November 23, 2011 at 1:02 am

   Dear jeff..

   according to your tutorial day 6 login , in my controller , it is not redirecting me to site/members_area it only redirect to the validate_credentials ….

   please i need help as i am stuck over this..

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5. Robo says:

   November 26, 2011 at 1:03 pm

   Thanks for sharing these great tutorials Jeffrey.

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6. Sven says:

   November 28, 2011 at 10:43 am

   My styles (styles.css) do not get applied when I click the Create Account button.

   They work fine on the Login form, but not on the Sign Up form.

   Now, what thing could cause that to happen? I followed the tutorial step by step, so I really don’t get HOW this screws up!? The styles are added in the header, and it’s the exact same header I’m using all the time. This has to be a bug!?

   Anyone have any ideas?

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   • veritascs says:

     January 19, 2012 at 10:23 am

     Try referencing your styles via the whole URL and not just relative.

     I’m guessing you’re doing something like ‘assets/css/styles.css’, try ‘http://domain/assets/css/styles.css‘

     I had this issue recently.

     Reply
7. Attila says:

   November 29, 2011 at 1:01 pm

   Hi, i just couldnt find this in the documentation: $this->db->where(). Can somebody explain this to me pls?

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8. Derek says:

   December 5, 2011 at 6:25 pm

   Why didn’t you go over a logout function? I know it was a big tutorial to begin with but that’s the other half of the puzzle.

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9. Chris says:

   December 9, 2011 at 11:26 am

   Great tutorial, just what I was looking for. Thank you!

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10. CJ says:

    December 9, 2011 at 8:23 pm

    i noticed you did $query = $this->something in the IF statement… won’t that IF always be true becuase it’s just returning a value? wouldn’t it make more sense to just do if($this->something). i don’t know if i’m wrong or you just missed it.

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    • CJ says:

      December 9, 2011 at 8:24 pm

      sorry. this is in regards to the member creation process. the query I’m referring to is when you call the model to create it.

      Reply
11. mash says:

    December 28, 2011 at 7:52 am

    THANKS!!!!!! Very Helpful

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12. John Meher says:

    January 6, 2012 at 2:30 pm

    I know this tutorial has been around for awhile but you can also do;

    $this->session->sess_destroy();
    redirect(‘some/page’);

    Thanks for the tutorial, would like to see more!

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13. Andrew Kimball says:

    January 26, 2012 at 9:35 am

    These tutorials have really helped me gain a better understanding of MVC! Thanks!

    For those having the problem with the login validation, change :

    $query->num_rows == 1

    to

    $query->num_rows() == 1

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    • Andrew Kimball says:

      January 26, 2012 at 8:03 pm

      Actually what I posted above doesn’t make a difference. It turns out that I had multiple records in the database with the same username and password. Since we are checking for $query->num_rows() == 1, the conditional statement was never executed.

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14. helena says:

    January 31, 2012 at 4:37 am

    i can’t get the css files right. could you explain how the css files are called?

    “Unable to load the requested file: stylesheet.css”
    exactly on loading the basepath

    i am using the latest version, so there are some differences to your version here.
    This was an excellent tutorial, btw.

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15. helena says:

    January 31, 2012 at 5:21 am

    hi again!
    Forget about my previous problem, i had to modify sth, thanks the best tutorial! :)

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16. Marcelo says:

    February 10, 2012 at 11:26 am

    Hi everyone, I’ve just complete the tutorial but here I have some weird thing happening. When I try to access the members area without the $is_logged_in set, the system redirects to the login screen, just like I expected, but it also outputs the member page contents after the login page content… Does anyone have any idea to solve this? I´m using the last version available on this date.

    Here is the SITE controller:

    is_logged_in();
    }

    public function restrito()
    {
    $this->load->view(‘site/site_main’);
    }

    public function is_logged_in(){
    $is_logged_in = $this->session->userdata(‘is_logged_in’);

    if(!isset($is_logged_in) || $is_logged_in != TRUE){
    $data['main_content'] = “inicial”;
    $this->load->view(‘includes/template’, $data);
    }
    }

    }

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