Assigning Roles to Users

[newlearn]

I need some guidance about assigning roles to different users of an Application.
There are three levels. Managers, Employees and Users.

When users login, how will I make sure that not all access is gven to them in the application.

Are there any tutorials that can give me little idea about how to do this?

[tinkerbox]

When login assign value to each of them using session.
Eg:


if ($login_ok) {

session_start();
if ($login_as == "manager") {
$_SESSION['level'] = '1';
} else if ($login_as == "employee") {
$_SESSION['level'] = '2';
} else if ($login_as == "user") {
$_SESSION['level'] = '3';
}

}


Page for each level can access/see differently:

session_start();
if ($_SESSION['level'] == '1') {
// show to manager
}

Hope you'll get some idea how to do it :)

[newlearn]

Thankyou so much. I will try to see how I can get things work with this.

[tinkerbox]

post update here.
always happy to help :D

[newlearn]

I have couple of more doubts .

When I check for userLevels during login, should I have separate pages for different levels.

Like - showTable.php will have 3 copies -

showTableManager.php , showTableAdmin.php, showtableEmp.php

Other way, I was thinking to go with if conditions for the data to be displayed or hidden on the same file showTable.php .

[newlearn]

Somebody please reply.