Typical behavior is for the username and password to be sent to the server for verification. What you do to accomplish this on the server side is a matter of what web development framework you are using... Ruby on Rails, for example, or Django, or a zillion other options... or something you create yourself. Yes, normally the server-side code will access a database to check that the password matches the username. And yes, most of the available web development frameworks out there rely on the concept of a "session" that stays the same for a given user, such that once a user has logged in they remain logged in, and your pages are able to easily check and verify that fact, until either the user logs out or their session "times out".
So you are going to need to choose a framework to work with unless you like the idea of reinventing everything from scratch. The framework you choose should depend on what scripting language(s) you are already familiar with. There is plenty of information on these subjects out there for the searching. On May 12, 8:49 pm, puma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just created a webpage that requires a username and password to be > submitted in order for the user to proceed to another section of the > site. > > My questions is how can the landing page (the page the user is > redirected to after submitting the correct information) verify that > the user has logged in??? If he/she hasn't how can I redirect the user > to the login page??? > > Can this be done with javascript itself??? or do in need to connect to > some sort of external database??? > > Thanks > > - puma
