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Scenario: I’m building a site in EE where all pages are viewable only after a user logs in. After logging in, api key and other variables are maintained in php session variables. So, if a user enters a URL directly, I need to check to see if they’ve already logged in and if the session exists.

I’ve tried putting a simple php script at the beginning of a EE template but I guess it won’t work properly because the page is rendered and then loaded?

Here’s what I’m currently trying…

<?php
  if(true){
    // not logged in
    header('Location: http://...login address…');
  } else {
    // logged in already, continue
  }
?>
.
.
rest of EE template
.
.

I could use a javascript redirect, but that would be after the page is loaded and all. Any thoughts?

Forgive me if I didn’t post this in the right category.

I guess a more direct question is why won’t this work? A template containing nothing but this does nothing.

<?php
  header(‘Location: http://www.johnkeese.com/’);
?>

I’ve toggled PHP parsing stage to input and output, no change.

I’m probably totally missing what you’re trying to do here but can you not use the

{if logged_in}Perform items here if they are logged in{/if}

{if logged_out}Perform items here if user is logged out{/if}

tags to get what you need here?

I’m not brilliant with header redirects but whenever I’ve seen them in the past people have always mentioned that you need to have an exit; statement after the header location part.

Don’t know if any of that helps at all though?

Best wishes,

Mark

Mark, thanks for the help. the ‘exit;’ is what I needed. A search from that jump off point led me to this:

<?php
  if($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] == __FILE__ )
  header('Location: /');
?>

After sending the `Location:’ header PHP _will_ continue parsing, and all code below the header() call will still be executed.  So instead use:

<?php
  if($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] == __FILE__)
{
  header('Location: /');
  exit;
}
?>

more here >

Thanks again for the help. Just the bump I needed

btw, I can’t use the {logged_in} variables because I’m not using the EE member groups. For the login, I’m sending api calls to an external database.

Thanks again for the help. Just the bump I needed

No problem at all. Glad that got it working for you.

btw, I can’t use the {logged_in} variables because I’m not using the EE member groups. For the login, I’m sending api calls to an external database.

Aha I see now. Hope it all goes well for you.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi John,

Glad that you got this figured out.

Cheers

Greg

@Mark, thanks very much for the help.