PHP - How To Track User Going To Different Pages Through The Browser

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Hi guys, in my database i have the table called users, where i have 5 fields (id, username, email, password, user_level) - for the user_level field i have 2 options administrator and editor.   What i want to do is that when the user who is logged in have administrator in the user_level field to see all the pages from backend, and the user who have in the user_level field editor to see only some of the pages from the backend such as newsletter, or messages.   I hope you understand what i'm asking if not fell free to ask me if you need more specific details.   I tried to make a php page called access.php wher i put the following code, but not working

<?php
session_start();
$sql = $mysqli->query("SELECT user_level FROM imobiliare_users WHERE id=$id");
$user_level = $mysqli->query($sql);
echo $user_level;
if ($user_level !="administrator") {
	echo "You are not the proper user type to view this page";
    die();
  }
?>

Hope you can help me. Thx in advance for help.

Hello,

I'd like to know if there is any alternatives for cookies,session and ip for user identification ?

As cookies aren't secure enough as they're easily compromised and untrustable.
As for session, I haven't seen a website that uses session for user identification while still being told to use in several "Login/Registration" tutorials, but aren't secure/trustworthy in my opinion as they're editable.

IP isn't the best idea because people use proxys and can change ip per page or interval. ( and VPN's )

User agents are editable by plugins and aren't unique as far as I know.


Are there any trustworthy information that can be retrived from the user ?
or combine a few into one ?
(except evercookie)



P.S. I am aware of OpenID, OAuth and social media authentication, but I am not interested in other websites identifying users for me.


Appericiate any input.

I am using a nivo slider that doesn't work in IE 6. I am trying to think of the best way to verify the users browser and if it is IE 6 show a static image anything else show slider. Is PHP the best way to accomplish this?

Hello I am trying to have an index page saying
"Your browser is XYZ and you are using version 123"

However I seem to be only able to do it if I stick in a lot of if else statements.
e.g
<?php
require_once('Browser.php');
$browser = new Browser();
if( $browser->getBrowser() == Browser::BROWSER_FIREFOX && $browser->getVersion() >= 2 ) {
echo 'You have FireFox version 2 or greater';
}
?>
I want it so I only need to do something like
<?php
require_once('Browser.php');
$browser = new Browser();
echo 'You are using' . $browser_name . 'version' . $broswer_version;
?>
I have been trying for a while to get it to work, but I can't seem to be able to do it.
Is there any esay way of doing it or will I need to do it like in my example?

Hey guys,   So, I have some complicated code, kind of. I'm using a Java server to generate a PDF. The actual user interacts with a HTML/PHP page and they click a submit and everything is good so far.   I generate a PDF to my /tmp directory (I'm using Linux) and it's a perfectly fine PDF. I can open it and read it and it's perfectly as it should be.   But when I try to send it to the user's browser as a download, the PDF I get doesn't open.   The error I get is "File type HTML document (text/html) is not supported" and that I'm unable to open the document.   My biggest question is, why? Is it something to do with the permissions of my directories and files? I've had a lot of errors be caused because of permissions so it wouldn't surprise me.   My output to the user page is :   Successfully connected to Java server. 

Trying to set a condition in my header a few questions:

This code is close but gives me an error code and doesn't redirect.

1) Can anyone figure out how to make this work so that if user is in IE6 the url will redirect to the second URL?
2) I would put this in my header right? I can't figure out why this isn't working.

Code: [Select]
<?php
$HTTP_USER_AGENT = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
function str_present($str,$substr)
{
$pos = strpos($str,$substr);
if($pos === false) {
 return false;
}
else {
 return true;
}
}
if (str_present($HTTP_USER_AGENT, "IE6"))
{
header('location: url1');
}else{
    header('location: url2');
}
?>

Hi,   i am a student for a school.   we have in each class a book that lists the shool year. Teachers use it to make notes in it and mark people that are not present.   i want to bring that whole process online making a website out of it.   Teachers can log in and see the yearbook. Days view, Week view, Month view. Mark people that have been missing on a specific day. List all the people that have been missing during a school week.   How would i present the Calender? Tables?   I have the some knowledge in mysql, php and joomla.   How would i go about getting startet? Do i need to have a Framework?   All ideas would be greatly appreciated.   Thank you    

I have a site where people vote, currently if two computers that are on the same network vote, my site will see them as one computer because I only track people by IP address.

What would be a good way to track 2+ computers with the same IP address?

I've searched the forum, and haven't yet found what I need.

I have a long list of PDF files:  http://www.iampeth.com/vintage_magazines.php

How can I track the number of downloads for each file?

How can I track session requests, so I can, after a certain number of requests (let's say ten because it's physcologically pleasing), have the id regenerated?

Hello!

I want to build a script to basically keep track of the number of hosting accounts that are currently on each server. I have roughly 30 servers (root access,  WHM, cPanel) that I would like to be able to track all of from a single page. Could someone help/point me in the right direction/offer any input?


thanks! much appreciated!

Hello,   I have been looking for a way to track the play stats on audio mp3's in the admin of my custom post-type. Whatever I google seems to come up with nothing. I not very versed in audio player code - could someone please point me in the right direction.    Again:  I have a custom post-type which uses the wordpress default audio.  I would like to get the number of plays for each audio file and display that in the admin column for my custom post-type   Thanks, Drew

Hi everybody,   I want to cloak my affiliate links or mask it so it looks like a pretty url. Also if possible, I want to track the clicked link with Google Analytics so I think I need a page where I can log the click.   I found lots of information but not for the situation I have. I get my links from my database like this:

echo '<a href="'.$info['url'].'">the link</a>';

How can I accomplish this? So I need a url like www.mydomain.com/click and when a user click on the link the get a new page with a tracking code and a redirect script to the right url.   Thanks so much for the help!   Kind regards, Mark