The article teaches you how to create a user login using the Dreamweaver MX ASP.NET/VB or C# server models. It also shows you how to protect a page and logout a user.
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Create dmx login form, dataset and validate it

Note: The code in this article is for documents that use the ASP.NET/VB or C# server models.

Step 1

1. Create a new asp.net/vb page and name it login.aspx.

2. Create a login form with 2 asp:textboxes and 1 asp:button. Use the asp.net web server controls from Insert > ASP.NET Objects. Make sure the controls are within the form tag (dmx should do this by default.)

For the username textbox:

ID = txtusername

Text mode = SingleLine

For the password textbox:

ID = txtpassword

Text mode = Password

For the button:

ID = btn_login

Text = Login

Step 2

Now let's create a DataSet to retrieve the users stored in the users table. We have to filter this dataset by the username and password that will be submitted by the login form we created for the user above.

1. Application Panel > Server Behaviors > + > DataSet

2. Name your dataset ds_checkuserinfo.

3. For the SQL select your user id, username and user password columns from the users table. Filter by the username and user password columns. The highlighted text in the image below are the names of 2 parameters that will reflect the values of the 2 textboxes.

Here is my SQL. Obviously, change the names of the columns and table to reflect your own, but do not change the parameter names (that are highlighted in the image):

    SELECT user_id, user_name, user_pwd
    FROM tbl_users
    WHERE user_name = @user_name AND user_pwd = @userpwd

Step 3

Now let's add the parameters which will reflect the values submitted in the 2 textboxes of the form, one which is named txtusername and the other txtpassword.

1. From the Parameters section, click the plus (+) sign.

Name the parameter @user_name. Change the Type to WChar. Click the Build button.

2. Name the build value txtusername and get the source from the Form Variable and click OK. (This is using the value of whatever is submitted in the txtusername textbox as the value of the parameter.)

Step 4

Now we want to add the second parameter, which will be the password.

1. Do the same as in Step 3 but in the Add parameter dialog box change the name of the parameter to @userpwd and in the build dialog box change the name to txtpassword.  Click OK to close the Add Parameter dialog box.

2. Click OK to close the DataSet dialog box.

Step 5

Now let's create the source code that will actually validate the DataSet. The source code has to find out whether a record was found in that DataSet we created and create a cookie if so, and if not, just reload the page.

1. Switch to Code view and add the following code above the <MM:dataset code.

    <Script runat="server">
    Sub button_click(s as object, e as eventargs)
          If ds_checkuserinfo.RecordCount = 1 Then 
                Response.Cookies("ckusername").Value = Request.Form("txtusername")
                Response.Cookies("ckusername").Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1)
                Response.Redirect("login1.aspx")
          End if
    End Sub
    </script>

Here's the C# code:

    <script runat="server">
    void button_click(Object s, EventArgs e)
    {
    if (ds_checkuserinfo.RecordCount == 1)
    {
    Response.Cookies["ckusername"].Value = txtusername.Text;
    Response.Cookies["ckusername"].Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1);
    Response.Redirect("login1.aspx");
    }
    }
    </script>

The code above checks to see whether the dataset named ds_checkuserinfo returned a record. If it does, that means the username and password submitted are valid; thus we create a cookie named ckusername using the value of the username and redirect to login1.aspx page. You can redirect to any page you like.