As part of my undergraduate project (Now intranet app, using PHP and MySQL) I need to create a lock out mechanism for the database. If the user gets their password wrong X times, then their account is lock out. I know in ASP there is a postback function. Is there an equivalent in PHP, and if so what is it?

I know how to control the number of attempts (Via a column in user table saying attempts. Upon login user table looks at "attempts" column. If attempts >=X (X being the number chosen by the database administrator (Or root user)) then the account is disabled (Thank you Enum!) but I need postback equivalence. Can anyone help?

Many thanks

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David Thorne, Student
UK

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David Thorne, Student
UK

Hey David,

Sorry no one's replied yet. I've read a little bit about postback, but PHP doesn't natively support that functionality, since it seems to be a blending of both client- and server-side functionality.

As long as you write (or have PHP generate) the appropriate javascript to handle resubmitting a form at the appropriate time, there's no reason why you can't mimic ASP's postback functionality.

In fact, most PHP scripts are written such that the same script that generates the form usually receives the submitted data -- the form method is set to post and the action is set to $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']:

  echo "<form method=\"post\" action=\"{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}\">\n";



Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

Yes, there is PostBack in PHP, but more than to PostBack and of cours not similar to PostBack.

http://www.php-india.net/Akaar/?op=BackFire


The concept which provides this and more interesting features in PHP is called "Akaar"

it is a PHP Application Development System. It is an object oriented, modular application development system for PHP using smarty template system.

You can view more details on this

http://www.php-india.net/Akaar/