custom login page

[roger]

Hi!
...I'm a noob. but the installation was easy and userspice is running of course. Everything works. What I would like to do, is create a custom user page for each user. They don't really differentiate much, but I would need to transfer a variable (username) to a form respectively when the form is submitted the username automatically in there.

This is how the form works right now:
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<form class="form-horizontal" role="form" id="test-form">
<div class="form-group">
<label class="col-lg-3 control-label">First Name</label>
<div class="col-lg-3 inputGroupContainer">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="firstName" placeholder="First Name"/>
</div>
</div>
</div>
====


So ideally I have a hidden form field that gets the username or full name through the login procedure. I can then submit the form without the user having to input anything.

Any help is greatly appreceated.
R.

[mudmin]

So if the user is logged in, you already have access to the user's username in the variable $user->data()->username;

If you want them to physically go to a different page, you can do that in usersc/scripts/custom_login_script

I guess the question is what do you want to do with the page?

[roger]

well, after logging in they should see a page (or section for that matter) with a form. On submit each individual user should have their username / name submitted.

[mudmin]

Ok, so I think you're thinking about that wrong. Once someone is logged in, you have the entire user object at your disposal. In fact, try this...

Go on a page where the user is logged in. Any page and add this code...

Code:

<?php

Code:

if(isset($user) && $user->isLoggedIn()){

Code:

dump($user);

Code:

}

Code:

?>

You don't need that isset part, but what it does is stops the page from throwing a bunch of errors if the user isn't logged in.

So, once you have all that information, you can just call it by doing

Code:

$user->data()->fname

or

Code:

$user->data()->email

and that will always give you that information of the logged in user.

So on submit, you would just do

Code:

if(!empty($_POST){

Code:

$username = $user->data()->username;

Code:

}

[roger]

Thanks, Mudmin

I added the lines in the account.php - which essentially has the user information since after login.
this one

<?php
if(isset($user) && $user->isLoggedIn()){
dump($user);
}
?>

didn't render the site correctly.
this snippet: $user->data()->fname - seems to be working fine (no render errors)
and this one:

if(!empty($_POST){
$username = $user->data()->username;
}

I don't know how to work :/ sorry

[roger]

got it work like this: <input type="text" class="form-control" name="user" value="<?=echouser($user->data()->id)?>"/>

[mudmin]

Yes. That works. The thing you risk is that someone could change it. If it were me, I would try 2 more things.

I would add the word readonly to the end of the input

Code:

<input type="text" name="user" value="<?=$user->data()->id?>" readonly>

but then, to be honest, if on form submission I would not even look at what's inputted on the form input. I would just do

Code:

$username = $user->data()->username;

Unless you really want them to be able to put something other than their username in there, because even with readonly, they could post a different username (like admin).