Add additional session variable on login?

Hi,
at first, sorry for my bad englisch. Maybe anyone here can speak german.
Is there any way to save an additonal session variable on login without it is required to store this variable in a table column.
A short description:
I have a member table, that contains the login information (id, password, level) and further information about the member. A second table contains different sportevents.
Now i would create a login form, which has 3 input fields, one for the member id, one for the password and one select field, who the member can choose the sportevent. For further work, i need the member id, the member level and the sportevent id as a session variable. There is no problem, with the member id and the level id, this both variables i can get with the ADDT login wizard, but how can i safe the event id during the login as session variable?
Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance.
Rico

Hi Rico,
Maybe anyone here can speak german
na komm, dein Englisch ist ziemlich gut, und ich möchte deine Frage lieber in Englisch beantworten, damit andere ADDT-User auch was davon haben :-)
There is no problem, with the member id and the level id, this both variables i can get with the ADDT login wizard, but how can i safe the event id during the login as session variable?
What I´m saying now, is somewhat experimental, because I didn´t try that myself so far -- but I think this should work:
a) add another numeric (int) column to your ADDT login table that´s going to hold the selected value from your "events" menu -- let´s call this column "current_event_id"
b) on the login page: create a recordset which retrieves the "event_id " and "event_name" values from your "sportevents" table -- guess that´s what you already did for populating the "events" menu you mentioned
c) switch the login page to CODE. When scrolling down, you´ll see these 2 lines below the // Add columns comment:
$loginTransaction->addColumn("kt_login_user", "STRING_TYPE", "POST", "kt_login_user");
$loginTransaction->addColumn("kt_login_password", "STRING_TYPE", "POST", "kt_login_password");
below that, add another line like this:
$loginTransaction->addColumn("current_event_id", "NUMERIC_TYPE", "POST", "events");
In order to convert the submitted "events" menu - value to a session variable, you should add the new column "current_event_id" to ADDT´s list of default session variables
(Control Panel)
Does that work ?
Cheers,
Günter Schenk
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver

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 <?php // Load the tNG classes require_once('../includes/tng/tNG.inc.php'); // Make unified connection variable $conn_project1 = new KT_connection($project1, $database_project1); //Start Restrict Access To Page $restrict = new tNG_RestrictAccess($conn_project1, "../"); //Grand Levels: Any $restrict->Execute(); //End Restrict Access To Page if (!function_exists("GetSQLValueString")) { function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", $theNotDefinedValue = "") { $theValue = get_magic_quotes_gpc() ? stripslashes($theValue) : $theValue; $theValue = function_exists("mysql_real_escape_string") ? mysql_real_escape_string($theValue) : mysql_escape_string($theValue); switch ($theType) { case "text": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL"; break; case "long": case "int": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL"; break; case "double": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . doubleval($theValue) . "'" : "NULL"; break; case "date": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : "NULL"; break; case "defined": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : $theNotDefinedValue; break; } return $theValue; } } // FELIXONE - 2002 SB by Felice Di Stefano - www.felixone.it session_start(); if (!isset($HTTP_SESSION_VARS[$_SESSION['kt_firstname']]) || $HTTP_SESSION_VARS[$_SESSION['kt_firstname']] = $row_Recordsetfname['firstname']) { header ("Location: ../firstname/firstname1.php"); } $colname_Recordsetfname = "-1"; if (isset($_SESSION['kt_user_name'])) { $colname_Recordsetfname = $_SESSION['kt_user_name']; } mysql_select_db($database_project1, $project1); $query_Recordsetfname = sprintf("SELECT firstname FROM registration WHERE user_name = %s", GetSQLValueString($colname_Recordsetfname, "text")); $Recordsetfname = mysql_query($query_Recordsetfname, $project1) or die(mysql_error()); $row_Recordsetfname = mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordsetfname); $totalRows_Recordsetfname = mysql_num_rows($Recordsetfname); $colname_Recordset1 = "-1"; if (isset($_SESSION['kt_user_name'])) { $colname_Recordset1 = $_SESSION['kt_user_name']; } mysql_select_db($database_project1, $project1); $query_Recordset1 = sprintf("SELECT `Date` FROM registration WHERE user_name = %s", GetSQLValueString($colname_Recordset1, "text")); $Recordset1 = mysql_query($query_Recordset1, $project1) or die(mysql_error()); $row_Recordset1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset1); $totalRows_Recordset1 = mysql_num_rows($Recordset1); ?>
 
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I am new to adobe toolbox... I ve created a ligin page but not sure how to pass the session variable. I am trying to direct successful login to a page like... index.php?id=filter
 
 been struggling all day with this. Please help!!!
 
 <?php require_once('Connections/comm.php'); ?>
 <?php // Load the common classes require_once('includes/common/KT_common.php'); // Load the tNG classes require_once('includes/tng/tNG.inc.php'); // Make a transaction dispatcher instance $tNGs = new tNG_dispatcher(""); // Make unified connection variable $conn_comm = new KT_connection($comm, $database_comm); // Start trigger $formValidation = new tNG_FormValidation(); $formValidation->addField("kt_login_user", true, "text", "", "", "", ""); $formValidation->addField("kt_login_password", true, "text", "", "", "", ""); $tNGs->prepareValidation($formValidation); // End trigger // Make a login transaction instance $loginTransaction = new tNG_login($conn_comm); $tNGs->addTransaction($loginTransaction); // Register triggers $loginTransaction->registerTrigger("STARTER", "Trigger_Default_Starter", 1, "POST", "kt_login1"); $loginTransaction->registerTrigger("BEFORE", "Trigger_Default_FormValidation", 10, $formValidation); $loginTransaction->registerTrigger("END", "Trigger_Default_Redirect", 99, "{kt_login_redirect}"); // Add columns $loginTransaction->addColumn("kt_login_user", "STRING_TYPE", "POST", "kt_login_user"); $loginTransaction->addColumn("kt_login_password", "STRING_TYPE", "POST", "kt_login_password"); $loginTransaction->addColumn("kt_login_rememberme", "CHECKBOX_1_0_TYPE", "POST", "kt_login_rememberme", "0"); // End of login transaction instance // Execute all the registered transactions $tNGs->executeTransactions(); // Get the transaction recordset $rscustom = $tNGs->getRecordset("custom"); $row_rscustom = mysql_fetch_assoc($rscustom); $totalRows_rscustom = mysql_num_rows($rscustom); ?>
 
 
 
 
 
 
<script src="includes/common/js/base.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
 
<script src="includes/common/js/utility.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
 
<script src="includes/skins/style.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
 <?php echo $tNGs->displayValidationRules();?>
 
 
 
 <?php echo $tNGs->getLoginMsg(); ?>
 <?php echo $tNGs->getErrorMsg(); ?>
 
<form method="post" id="form1" class="KT_tngformerror" action="%3C?php%20echo%20KT_escapeAttribute(KT_getFullUri());%20?%3E">
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="KT_tngtable">
<tr>
<td class="KT_th">
<label for="kt_login_user">Username:</label>
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="kt_login_user" id="kt_login_user" value="<?php echo KT_escapeAttribute($row_rscustom['kt_login_user']); ?>" size="32" />
 <?php echo $tNGs->displayFieldHint("kt_login_user");?> <?php echo $tNGs->displayFieldError("custom", "kt_login_user"); ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="KT_th">
<label for="kt_login_password">Password:</label>
</td>
<td>
<input type="password" name="kt_login_password" id="kt_login_password" value="" size="32" />
 <?php echo $tNGs->displayFieldHint("kt_login_password");?> <?php echo $tNGs->displayFieldError("custom", "kt_login_password"); ?></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="KT_th">
<label for="kt_login_rememberme">Remember me:</label>
</td>
<td>
<input <?php if (!(strcmp(KT_escapeAttribute($row_rscustom['kt_login_rememberme']),"1"))) {echo "checked";} ?> type="checkbox" name="kt_login_rememberme" id="kt_login_rememberme" value="1" />
 <?php echo $tNGs->displayFieldError("custom", "kt_login_rememberme"); ?></td>
</tr>
<tr class="KT_buttons">
<td colspan="2">
<input type="submit" name="kt_login1" id="kt_login1" value="Login" />
 </td>
</tr>
</table>
 
<a href="forgot_password.php">Forgot your password?</a>
 </form>

Flashbuilder and Cold Fusion (using application/session variables)

I would like to know if anybody uses Flashbuilder with Cold Fusion?
Since Cold Fusion has lots of different scopes of variables (application, session, client, form, url, etc...) how do you manage this in Flex/Flashbuilder?
Are there forums or groups specifically for using Flex3/Flashbuilder with backend server side technologies such as Cold Fusion?.
The only server side technology that I have interest in is Cold Fusion. I've seen basic tutorials and videos using Cold Fusion CFC's and data binding with Flex. I haven't seen or heard anything using a Cold Fusion application, session, or client variable in Flex.
Hopefully some of you have some experience on this topic.
Thanks

hey popster,
i too had this question some time ago. my entire app was built on CF with HTML before i started integrating Flex 3 with it. i found that i needed to create cookie variables for all my session variables i was using in order to maintain and remember who the user was in my CFC calls. i also found that after i compiled a flex app, i changed the .html to .cfm (the file that loads the compiled SWF file). by doing this i was able to pass CF session variables into the flex app and you can refer to these anywhere in Flex by using Application.application.parameters.{variable name here}
add the CF variable in the FlashVars line to pass it into Flex (see the last line of code). this will create a variable (in my case i'm passing session.employeenumber). then in your flex app you can reference it by using Application.application.parameters.emplid:
AC_FL_RunContent(
 "src", "Request",
 "width", "100%",
 "height", "87%",
 "align", "middle",
 "id", "Request",
 "quality", "high",
 "bgcolor", "#869ca7",
 "name", "Request",
 "allowScriptAccess","sameDomain",
 "type", "application/x-shockwave-flash",
 "pluginspage", "http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer",
 "wmode","transparent",
 "FlashVars","emplid=<cfoutput>#session.employeenumber#</cfoutput"
A little trick I learned (does Adobe really expect us to re-engineer how our apps have been working by no longer using sessions for Flex?). Then in your CFCs if you also create cookies for every session variable you can maintain the variables based on user login. HOPE THIS HELPS!
-Matt

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