How to Display a Welcome Message After Users Successfully Logged In to the Websites Generated with PHPMaker 8.0.3

The following trick will show you how to display the welcome message to your users after they are successfully logged in to your web application that generated with PHPMaker 8.0.3. This message will be displayed on the first next page your users will see after they have successfully logged in to your site, no matter what page that they will see the first time after logged in.

The welcome message will include the complete name of your logged in user. For example, one of your users' username is: johndoe and the complete name of him is John Doe (first name is John, and the last name is Doe), so the welcome message that will be shown is: Welcome, John Doe!.

Please note that if you want to display the auto-hide message in three seconds, then please apply this customization.

All we have to do is customizing the PHPMaker template file and adding some code into the Server Events section of PHPMaker. In other words, we do not modify any generated script files.

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1. Open your .pmp PHPMaker project file using your PHPMaker application, click on the Database icon on the toolbar, and then click on the Server Events/Clients Scripts tab, go to the Server Events -> Other -> Login Page -> User_LoggedIn, and then add the following code into that function:

       global $Security, $Language;
       $this->setSuccessMessage($Language->Phrase("Welcome").", ". $Security->CurrentCompleteName()."!"); 
   

2. Make sure you have added the "Welcome" phrase into the C:\Program Files\PHPMaker 8\languages\english.xml file and also the other .xml language file (if any). To add a new phrase into the .xml language file, please read this article.
3. Open your /Script/phpfn.php file, and find this code:

   	function setCurrentUserName($v) {
   		$_SESSION[EW_SESSION_USER_NAME] = $v;
   	}
   

   after the last line of that code, please insert this following code:

   	function CurrentCompleteName() {
   		global $conn;
   		$first_name = "nama_awal"; // <-- adjust it with your real first name field
   		$last_name = "nama_akhir"; // <-- adjust it with your real last name field
   		$currentUserName = $this->getCurrentUserName();
   		if (($rs = $conn->Execute("SELECT ".$first_name.", ".$last_name." FROM ".EW_USER_TABLE." WHERE ".EW_USER_ID_FIELD." = '".$currentUserName."'")) && !$rs->EOF) {
   			$completeUserName = $rs->fields($first_name) . " " . $rs->fields($last_name);
   			$rs->Close();	
   		}
   		return $completeUserName;
   	}
   

   Please do not forget to adjust the values of the $first_name and $last_name variables above.

4. Open your /Script/ewcfg.php file, and find this code:

   define("EW_USER_NAME_FILTER", "<!--##=ew_Quote(sFilter)##-->",  TRUE);
   

   before the first line of that code, please insert the following code:

   <!--##
   	If PROJ.SecLoginIDFld <> "" Then
   		Set FIELD = SECTABLE.Fields(PROJ.SecLoginIDFld)
   		sFld = ew_FieldName
   	End If
   ##-->
   define("EW_USER_ID_FIELD", "<!--##=sFld##-->", TRUE);
   

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