Log user in after registrering.

Question

Hi, I want to log in the user after he registrered.

So, you login in a form with POST method. Now i was thinking about doing it this way:

header("index.php?doLogin=Login&user_email=$usr_email&pass=$data[pwd]");

But then, when you login its POST and not GET,

// Log in
if (isset($_POST['doLogin']) && $_POST['doLogin'] == 'Login')...

So what do I do? Another idea doing this maybe?

Answer 1

When user logging in you check the user credentials against DB then save state to session, right?

Just do that after user register, no need to send user to some page. Just do it on the same file, the registration takes place.

Answer 2

Its not really good to send the password over the URL. Send it over POST. Do you set a SESSION variable in your Login functions?

When you set the SESSION variable its easier to set the same variable direct after the registration and then redirect to the index.php.