Displaying a welcome message based on a specific user

How do I make a welcome message based on what specific user enters a webpage? For example, if "John" enters a website it will say "Welcome, John". Does it involve session variables?

 

Well, first you have to get input from users like asking his name through a form. And yes you can use session but u can also use variables like this.

First Page of your site.

Your Name ------------- "User will enter his name here"

On next page you can recall it through variable and write however you want.


If you have a membership system on your site, then you can use session as well. But for general public just use the variable.

If you have understood what i have said, start doing it and what ever problem you face, share it here, i will help you.

 

if it is a dynamic site based on SQL, once you have logged him in you have his details and you can keep it in a session variable.
Then just concatanate the value of the session to the rest of the sentense

Pseudo code example (after log-in has executed) :
Response.write session("FullNameFromDB") + " Welcome back"

If John had entered (not logged-in) to a previously visited site you do the same thing but from a cookie:
Pseudo-code:
Response.write Cookie("FullNameFromDB") + " Welcome back"

 

store a custom object class in the session state, which can be done from a global handler (asax)

somewhat like:

    /// <summary>
    /// Load Current User Session ID
    /// </summary>
    protected void LoadSessionID()
    {
        if (base.Session["ID"] != null)
        {
            SessionID = (ulong)base.Session["ID"];
        }
        else
        {
            lock (Serials)
            {
                byte[] Buffer = new byte[8];
                Gen.NextBytes(Buffer);
                ulong NewID = BitConverter.ToUInt64(Buffer, 0);
                while (Serials.Contains(NewID))
                {
                    Gen.NextBytes(Buffer);
                    NewID = BitConverter.ToUInt64(Buffer, 0);
                }
                Serials.Add(NewID);
                base.Session.Add("ID", NewID);
                SessionID = NewID;
                Sessions.Add(SessionID, new UserSession(SessionID));
            }
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Current User Session ID
    /// </summary>
    public ulong SessionID;

    /// <summary>
    /// Current User Session
    /// </summary>
    public UserSession Session
    {
        get
        {
            return Sessions[SessionID];
        }
        set
        {
            Sessions[SessionID] = value;
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Kill Current Session ID
    /// </summary>
    public void KillSession()
    {
        if (Sessions.ContainsKey(SessionID))
        {
            Sessions[SessionID].OnRemove();
            Sessions.Remove(SessionID);
        }
        base.Session.Remove("ID");
        if (Serials.Contains(SessionID))
            Serials.Remove(SessionID);

    }

PHP:

 

you could use sessions but also you could just say on the submit/click event if the page posts back to the same page and you don't forward to a particular page just take textbox1.text (i'm assuming name textbox) and say something like "welcome"+textbox1.text