Be sure to include some kind of exception handling so that difficulties updating the user row (updating the session_id to either the session_id value or resetting it back to null) doesn't leave your application in pieces on the floor or wide open.

Constrain what will be accepted as userid/password combinations so that someone cannot add a bit of sql to the end of the login string and read your whole user base.

I'm not a big fan of storing userid/password combinations in the clear, but that's up to you. (I'm also not an expert on encryption or obfuscation, or else I'd offer some technique to avoid that)

Good luck

In reply to Re: Cookie login (pseudocode) by DBAugie
in thread Cookie login (pseudocode) by spatterson

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