Logging Out

[rleunis]

I have managed to create a login page with username and password, which is triggered whenever anybody tries to start a page on the WAS server.

But how can I include an option, once logged in, to log out again?

I am thinking of: a choice in the menu system or a button.

But which code should be triggered?


Regards, Ron

[Lenny Forziati]

What you need to do depends on how you know someone is logged in. If you are looking to see if a variable exists, delete it. If you are testing a variable for a certain value, change it to something else.

I have managed to create a login page with username and password, which is triggered whenever anybody tries to start a page on the WAS server.

But how can I include an option, once logged in, to log out again?

I am thinking of: a choice in the menu system or a button.

But which code should be triggered?


Regards, Ron

[rleunis]

Lenny,

Thank you for your reply. I have setup following (basically a paste of the WEBDEMO) LOGINDIALOG component at the validate event:

if user_name = "" .or. password = ""  then 
	currentform.has_error = .t. 
	currentform.error_message = "User name or password cannot be blank."
else
	dim correct_password as c 
	DIM level AS N
	
	correct_password = lookup("[PathAlias.ADB_Path]\person","user_name=" + quote(user_name),"password")
	if correct_password = password then
		level = lookup("[PathAlias.ADB_Path]\person","user_name=" + quote(user_name),"level")
		session.__protected__SecurityLevel = level
		session.SUMA.UserName = user_name
	ELSE
		currentform.has_error = .t. 
		currentform.error_message = "Invalid user name or password."
	end if  
end if

Now I want the user to give an option to logout. How should I do that? Create a button with something like:

currentform.has_error = .t.

so the user is forced to re-login? I am not experienced with xbasic yet.

Thanks for your help, Ron

[rleunis]

Anybody out there?

[Lenny Forziati]

Save the following as logout.a5w

delete session.__protected__SecurityLevel
response.redirect("login.a5w")
%>

You can change login.a5w in the second line to any URL that you would like to have displayed after the user logs out.

Anybody out there?

[rleunis]

Lenny,

Thanks for the reply. I am assuming <%a5 needs to be placed in front of your code?

So, like this:

<%a5 delete session.__protected__SecurityLevel
response.redirect("login.a5w")
%>

I will give this a try. Thanks again, Ron

[rleunis]

Yes,

Creating a page with following code in it, which can be triggered via the menu system did the trick:

delete session.__protected__SecurityLevel
response.redirect("login.a5w"

Thanks again, Ron

[den1s]

Hi. I am attempting to create a logout. I like you have used the same login script, however, when i added the logout code to a new page, i am still able to access this page after i close the brower and reopen it again. I can once in add users as if i logged in properly. So my question is how do i set up the page to confirm that the login variable exists befor opening it?

Thanks in advance.

[Steve Wood]

Denis,

Go back to the examples or help text and look for procedures involving the file named logintest.a5w. You add this as an include to the top of every page you want to "test" for login. You don't add it to the LoginDialog page itself.

[den1s]

Cheers Steve, yep ive done this and all ok...... except..... after i click on the logout hyperlink which diverts to logout.a5w

<%a5 
delete session.__protected__SecurityLevel
session.reset()
response.redirect("login.a5w")
%>

and I then paste the previous page URL in the address bar, the form reappears. But if i refresh the browser page it then goes back to the login page as required. Is there a solution to this. Maybe put a refresh command (if possible) on the a5w page.....?