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Members AREA Solution wanted

Thread began 11/08/2012 9:22 am by Cologne | Last modified 11/08/2012 11:10 am by Jason Byrnes | 1832 views | 9 replies |

Cologne

Members AREA Solution wanted

Hi there,

I want to set up a members area, with, DB. Everything works fine.
The problem is, if I store other things like images in other tables that a related to the member ID its not safe.
I need to make sure, that the member only delete/edit his own images.
So I got a table members and a table images.
The relation is the member ID (stored in the session during login).
But, the problem is the image ID.
this is the critical thing. Cause I need to transmit it via the URL. ?imageID=6
So, anyone can change the imageID and delete random images from other ussers.
How can I fix that?

Cheers,
Denis

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

in the mages table, you should have a column that relates the image to the user using the users ID

so theres the imageID primary key column and the imageUserID column.

in the recordset that returns the image, add another where clause to compare the imageUserID column to the UserID session that gets set. this way, it doesn't matter if they change the Image id in the URL variable, it wont return anything unless the image belongs to them.

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Cologne

Hi Jason,
i know, that that will work, but how do I add an other WHERE in the DA behavior?
Thats what I often ask to implement in an DA update.
Cause, I dont know where to put it. And at least I cant re-Edit the DELETE or UPDATE via the Server behavior again :-(

So, where to put the extra code?

And please, put it on the update list :-)

Cheers,
Denis

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

it does not need to be included in the delete or update behavior.

the page that populates the delete or update pages uses a recordset to populate the page with the record to be deleted or updated.

this recordset should have the extra where condition to compare the session variable.

use a show if behavior to hide the delete or update form if the recordset is empty.

this way the delete cannot happen if it is for an image that does not belong to them

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Cologne

Ah, this is something I never thought about.

So, the URL is ?imageID=4

I create a recordset that searches the image via imageID=urlImageID AND userID=sessionUserID LIMIT 1

Should I SELECT the ID?

And this recordset ID I will use in the DELETE or UPDATE behavior?

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

the select on the update page should return all columns that may be updated, on the delete page only needs the ID

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Cologne

So I can put it in the fields of the update form, right?

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

or just use SELECT *

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Cologne

but this is only to have something to pre fill the fields right?

jason, i gonna try this. I allways used HASH from userID and imageID, check it on the edit page, ahh, that was horror!

I try your suggestion!
Denis

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

  but this is only to have something to pre fill the fields right?  



yes, that is correct.

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