Please help over msn - mysql & php

[goldy30]

I'm trying to set up a login where it allows two different access levels. members login will display a members area link... admin login displays both members and admin area links. Also once logged in a wecome message appears and echos the users email.

It's half done but I've got problems and it's gotten a bit advanced for me to figure out. My msn is airbrushkits@live.com I can send you files for you to look at and I can upload to check.

so I need help desperately asap, I've gone ahead and had help working out things too advanced for me and it's not finished. Due tomorrow. Help!

[mfurqanabid]

create a field in database name user_priv (int 1) and use 0 for users and 1 for admin.

Create 2 session

if user is admin than

$_SESSION['is_admin'] = 1;
$_SESSION['is_member'] = 1;

and if user than
$_SESSION['is_admin'] = 0;
$_SESSION['is_member'] = 1;

retrieve these session into admin and members area and check that he have rights to access these pages or not......

[xPlozion]

what you would obviously have to do is add a new row into the user database called access or something similar. have admin's one level, regular users another level, etc...

then what i do is have just the username and hashed password stored in cookies, then at the top of every page, i check those credentials against the database, then create unique variables to control the rest of it.

for instance, if those credentials matched, i would create a new variable called $logged_in or something similar, and if they were an admin, make one called $is_admin, or $access_lvl = the level stored in the db. if the level is == 1 for instance, they would be a regular member, 2 would be a mod (if you've got any), 3 an admin, etc...

then for the parts that only an admin should see make it if ($is_admin == TRUE) or if ($access_lvl == 3), show what the admin should see.