Re: User Login

cz231
Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:49:56 -0000

Hmm...that doesn''t work...Does anyone else know?
I''ll have to look into that plugin too...

Right now I''m trying
<% if session[:uid] != nil  -%>
Welcome User

			<% else -%>
		Login Form
<% end -%>

Thanks for any help...

On Jun 2, 9:02 pm, Cayce Balara
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> cz231 wrote:
> > Oops, sorry about that, I accidentally sent it somehow...
>
> > Anyway, for the <% if session[:uid] = @user.id -%> , I
don''t know what
> > would go in there...
>
> > Thanks for your help...
>
> Really all you want to know is if there is a session[:uid] -
>
> <% if session[:uid] %>
>
> if there is then the user is logged in, otherwise it will be nil.
>
> However, there''s some more to it. I would recommend you pull down
the
> restful_authentication plugin, run the generator and then examine the
> code to see how they do all this, which will teach you a lot.
>
> For instance, Restful_Authentication exposes the currently logged in
> user with "current_user" and also methods like
"logged_in?" and
> "authorized?" that will assist with what you are trying to do.
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