Thread: member to be logged in all the time?

Is it possible to make a members to be logged in all the the time. what i mean is for an example if you have an google account it never logs you out if you just close your browser. you acctully must click logout to be logged out.

why i am asking is when my members get an mail at another member have looked at there profile, the mail includes a photo of the person that just looked at your profile but to see the photo in your mail you need to be loged in. i think match have this thing also.

is this possible? i hope you understand my questions guys.

Warm regards Anders

You can set the cookie for the users to expire some date in the future (2010 for example) which will make it an persistent cookie - and thus, be available (if allowed in their browser settings) to be used in future browser sessions.

Smoge

thx smoge, fantastic exactly what i wanted but where is this cookie settings, cant remember where to find it? do you know? i just find this in logout.php, is this that should be change? what one should be change 48 or 3600 to ex.2010

i am confused as always i just find many setcookie in the files what one should be change, any ides smoge?

setcookie( 'memberID', $_COOKIE['memberID'], time() - 48 * 3600, '/' );
setcookie( 'memberPassword', $_COOKIE['memberPassword'], time() - 48 * 3600, '/' );

Regards anders

Yes - you found the right place.

Here is a Google link for info on cookie expiration:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...ookies&spell=1

Smoge

thx again smoge,

could you just tell me if 48 or 3600 should be changed to year 2010.

You will notice that there are 4 lines in the cookie setting code.

The first two lines expire the old cookie.

The last two lines set the new cookie. Since 0 is used, it is a session cookie. Dies after the browser is closed. You should config the 0 to some future date, making it a persistent cookie.

Smoge

is this the line

if ( strcmp( $action, 'member_logout' ) == 0

that need to be change?

it works perfect now i change the zero at the end to 2010

if ( strcmp( $action, 'member_logout' ) == 0

thx smoge

Very interesting. I have noticed that I have an issue where if someone is surfing across the site, then their icon is removed from the top of the page and replaced with the "Join Now - Member Login" text. If you click the link to log in, then the account information is displayed without entering user name/password, since they are already logged in.

My guess is that a cookie wont fix this, but it's probably not a bad idea anyway.