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[xenoix]

Greetings all,

I've got a question which I have no idea how to go about except for 1 painful way..

Basically, I want to create an application which requires authentication. Okay, easy. However, I want to know the best way to have the application to remember that im authenticated, and be able to access properties, such as username, userid, groupID etc.. I know how to do something like this in PHP. Below is a code snippet to help people understand what im asking.

Is the best way to do this by adding another constructor which accepts userID as a parameter on all forms?

public Edit (int UserID)
 

<?php
// Script1.php
session_start();
 
$_SESSION['authed'] = true;
$_SESSION['uid'] = 1;
$_SESSION['username'] = 'xenoix';
 
?>
 

then on another script:

<?php
session_start();
// script2.php
 
if($_SESSION['authed'])
{
echo "Welcome, " . $_SESSION['username'];
}
 

Thanks for any help provided.

[cloud255]

Hi

.NET supports sessions pretty much the same way PHP does (judging from the code you posted)

Session.Add("auth", true);
Session.Add("uid", 1);
 
if ((bool)Session["auth"])
{
    //true code here
}
 

[xenoix]

And this works with Visual C#? (I should have clarified that earlier..) Dont have VS installed atm to test..

If not, I think I can make another class and get/set values.

[cloud255]

@xenoix
Yes, the Session class is part of the .NET framework... But do note that this is specific to web form development, Session is not part of windows forms or WPF applications.

[xenoix]

Ah okay, yes my question was around Windows Forms :P

I think I worked it out though, just create a class called session or something and set parameters in that, and just request that on each page request.