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    Display Current Logged In User on Webpage

    This seems arbitrary but I am looking for some code to show the name of the current logged in user on a web page? What I want to do is have some text in the header of my page that says "You are logged in as {user.name}".
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    Re: Display Current Logged In User on Webpage

    Way more that what you were looking for but i use this in my tabbedui header.

    <img src="CSS/Headermed.jpg" ></div>
    <div style="POSITION: absolute; COLOR: #1a3347; TOP: 1px; RIGHT: 20px"><br >
    <%a5 ?session.__protected__userid %>&nbsp;<%a5 ?session.__protected__badgename %>
    <br ><%a5 ?session.__protected__storename %>
    <br ><%a5 ?date_format(date(),"Weekday, Mon-dd-yyyy") %><!-- <a href="login.a5w">Logout</a>&nbsp;<a href="em_profile.a5w">My Profile</a> -->
    </div>
    Chad Brown

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      #3
      Re: Display Current Logged In User on Webpage

      Chad,
      Thanks for the code. When you are requesting your session.__protected__"variables" where are they coming from?

      I am currently using this function from the wiki to show the usersid,
      Code:
      <%A5 

dim pUser as p 

a5ws_logged_in_user_values(pUser,request,session) 

if eval_valid("pUser.userid") = .T. then 

?"You are currently logged in as: " + pUser.userid +"<br>" 

end if 

%>
      What I would like to ultimately do is have a table set up with misc. user info like a full Name, company info and the ulink that can be passed as a variable. When the user logs in this table would be referenced against the logged in users ulink to get the correct data. I am sure this can be done but I think I need to dive into the Alpha 5 security a little deeper. If you or anyone has a recommendation of a post or book I would love it.

      Tommy B

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        Re: Display Current Logged In User on Webpage

        Tommy,

        Most of my variables come from an employee table, I use the employee number as my userid. When the user signs in it goes to a page that performs a lookup in the employee table and gets items such as employee-name, badge-name, store-name, store-id and email-address. You could use any field or result as a variable.
        It also at that time checks to see if that employee is active if they are not it redirects them back to login. If they are active I get the variables that I need and it redirects them to my mainpage and then I can call any variable in any place needed.

        Obviously as with anything in Alpha there are many ways to skin a cat but this one works great for me.

        Hope this helps
        Chad Brown

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          Re: Display Current Logged In User on Webpage

          Again...thank you. You have been a great help.

          But as always I have another question....
          When the user signs in it goes to a page that performs a lookup in the employee table and gets items such as employee-name, badge-name, store-name, store-id and email-address.
          The a5w page you go to for your table lookup, is that lookup info in a grid that is populated by the employee table or are you using xbasic in the background to do this?

          If its xbasic I guess i have some learning to do...Just starting to wrap my head around that.

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            #6
            Re: Display Current Logged In User on Webpage

            Yes It is xbasic, that is all that is on the page.

            PM me and I can show you how mine works.
            Chad Brown

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              Re: Display Current Logged In User on Webpage

              Wooo Hoooo....

              Ok just got it to work... this is what I did.

              1st, I created a user table with fields that I wanted to call in a session variable. (i.e. usr_fname, usr_lname, usr_company...) I also made a field that holds the "ulink" name for the user and indexed the "ulink" field.

              2nd, On my A5W page I added the following code (manipulated to my needs) in the head section. I found this on the message board from back in 2008 from Steve Wood. http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/al...ad.php?t=72021
              Code:
              <%A5
session.vUserCompany = alltrim(lookupc("F",alltrim(session.__protected__ulink),"usr_company","user_data","Index_Keywords_For_Usr_Recid"))
%>
              This allows you to do all you dirty work in the head section of the page you are using. Which in this case I just made an include page for all my A5W pages so I only have to change things once.


              3rd, Add
              Code:
              <%a5 ? session.vUserCompany %>
              in the page body.



              I think I have some opportunities to clean up my field names and what not but... that will have to happen on another night shift...

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