Topic: External Login

Hello. I have been browsing the forums and I haven't quite found the solution to my problem.  I have a login box on the main page of my site that logs a user into the forums. My problem is that after a user logs in, the page just refreshes and login box reappears. Is there a way I can have it say "Welcome Guest, Please login" if no one has logged in yet, and if a user is logged in it shows "Welcome [user]" and maybe under that have like a sub menu, like " Administration, Profile, Messages, Logout (if the user is an admin) or just "Profile, Messages, Logout" (if the user is not)

heres the current code im using

?php define('PUN_ROOT', 'boards/'); ?>
<?php
require PUN_ROOT.'include/common.php';
define('PUN_QUIET_VISIT', 1);
    $redirect_url = 'boards/index.php' ;
    if(isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']))
        $redirect_url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ;
 
    require PUN_ROOT.'lang/'.$pun_user['language'].'/login.php';

?>
          <form id="login" method="post" action="<?php echo PUN_ROOT.'login.php?action=in'; ?>">
            <input type="hidden" name="form_sent" value="1" />
            <input type="hidden" name="redirect_url" value="<?php echo $redirect_url ?>" />  
            <p align="center" style="margin-top: 2; margin-bottom: 2">
            <b><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 9pt" color="#FFFFFF">
            Username:</font></b></p>
            <p align="center" style="margin-top: 2; margin-bottom: 2">
            <input type="text" name="req_username" size="13" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold"></p>
            <p align="center" style="margin-top: 2; margin-bottom: 2"><b>
            <font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 9pt" color="#FFFFFF">
            Password:</font></b></p>
            <p align="center" style="margin-top: 2; margin-bottom: 2">
            <input type="password" name="req_password"  size="13" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold"></p>
            <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">
            <input type="image" src="img/login.gif" name="login" value="<?php echo $lang_common['Login'] ?>" />
          </form>

Re: External Login

C'mon, anyone got any suggestions?:)

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