remember me for login

[Frank Vèssia]

Hello,

what is the best way to implement e remember me function for a custom users login ?

[WillyC]

cookies.is great way, no?

[ryan]

I agree, cookies would be the way to set this up. You'd just set a cookie with the user's name and pre-populate the field with the name from the cookie (after sanitizing it with $sanitizer->pageName). You could do this with PHP or Javascript. But I'd probably use PHP just because the logic of figuring out when to store the value (after login) would be simpler from the PHP side.

[Frank Vèssia]

OK, thanks

[Jonathan Lahijani]

I agree, cookies would be the way to set this up. You'd just set a cookie with the user's name and pre-populate the field with the name from the cookie (after sanitizing it with $sanitizer->pageName). You could do this with PHP or Javascript. But I'd probably use PHP just because the logic of figuring out when to store the value (after login) would be simpler from the PHP side.

Isn't the idea you described just to remember a user's username in a cookie, even after they've logged out, so that it'd prepopulate a login form with their name?

What would be the best approach for truly keeping them signed in (unless they specifically log out), even after they've closed their browser?  Basically a "Remember Me" feature much like WordPress or other web apps (Google, etc.) where it expires after a couple weeks.

I'm having difficulty with this.

[fmgujju]

Adding a remember me feature to your php login script tutorial: http://www.downwithdesign.com/web-development-tutorials/adding-remember-feature-php-login-script/