User's city in header

[DGiscombe]

Hey,

Does anybody know how to display the user's registered city on the homepage in the same way the username is displayed in the welcome note?

I'm not sure on how to code a cookie session for that.

[Lhotch]

The login process doesnt pull any of the users address from the database when they login so to get it to display you would have to alter the login function to first collect that info. Then you would have to modify all the cookie and session related functions to include the existing data as well.

[DGiscombe]

Would the altering of the function be in includes/classes/kernal/Login.php alone?

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by DGiscombe

Would the altering of the function be in includes/classes/kernal/Login.php alone?

yep. The other session and cookie functions should be in there as well.

[DGiscombe]

Sorry to bug again, I'm not too good at coding, but I made these changes:

/**
* Update the users table session information
*
* @access private
* @return void
* @internal requires that _userData be set
*/
function _saveSession()
{
$sSQL = 'UPDATE ' . PREFIX . 'users
SET
lastlogin=NOW(),
cookie=' . $this->_db->quoteInto(md5($this->_userData['username'])) . ',
cookie=' . $this->_db->quoteInto(md5($this->_userData['country'])) . ',
session = ' . $this->_db->quoteInto(session_id()) . ',
custip = ' . $this->_db->quoteInto($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) . '
WHERE id =' . $this->_userData['id'];
$this->_db->query($sSQL);
}

/**
* Set a users session
*
* @access private
* @return void
* @internal requires that _userData be set
*/
function _setUserSession()
{
$_SESSION['uid'] = $this->_userData['id'];
$_SESSION['username'] = htmlspecialchars($this->_userData['username']);
$_SESSION['country'] = htmlspecialchars($this->_userData['country']);
$_SESSION['cookie'] = md5($this->_userData['username']);
$_SESSION['cookie'] = md5($this->_userData['country']);
$_SESSION['userlevel'] = $this->_userData['level'];
$_SESSION['logged'] = true;
$_SESSION['hash'] = $this->_hash;
}

Am I heading in the right direction here?

[Lhotch]

The changes you made simply place the a variable into a session or a cookie, but nothing you did actually collected that data from the database. Thats done by the _checklogin function (I may have that name wrong, im just going from memory).

[DGiscombe]

Am I adding a query in here somewhere?

function checkLogin($username, $password, $remember='N')
{
$password = $this->hashPassword($password);
if (defined('IN_ADMIN')) {
if (!$this->_checkAdminLogin($username, $password)) { //failed
$this->_checkLoginFailed();//assign error to template
return false;
}
$this->_setHash();
$this->_setAdminSession();
$this->_saveSession();
if ($remember <> 'N') {
$this->_setCookie();
}
return true;
}
if (!$this->_checkUserLogin($username, $password)) { //failed
$this->_checkLoginFailed();//assign error to template
return false;
}
if (!$this->_checkEmailValidation()) { //hasn't validated email
$this->_checkLoginFailed();//assign error to template
return false;
}
if ($this->_checkBanned()) { //banned
$this->_checkLoginFailed();//assign error to template
return false;
}
$this->_setHash();
$this->_setUserSession();
$this->_saveSession();
if ($remember <> 'N') {
$this->_setCookie();
}
return true;
}

[Eric Barnes]

Open Login and find the function _setUserSession().
Next inside this find:
$_SESSION['username'] = htmlspecialchars($this->_userData['username']);

Just below it add:
$_SESSION['city'] = htmlspecialchars($this->_userData['city']);

Then in the template:
{$smarty.session.city}

[DGiscombe]

Thanks Eric