I've been working and programming for a lot of time, but this simple yet a bit complicated question is always in my mind... this will be about core and plain PHP.
I want to know how can I archieve having just HTML/js files interacting with the server without changing the extension from .html to .php as effective as possible using just the necessary requests.
for example:
I have this website that has a login page:
- the user types his username and passwork and its sent using AJAX to auth.php
- auth.php do its thing then creates a $_SESSION if valid
- the user gets redirected to dashboard.html
Now, how do I get in every reload the current user in the frontend? I can get it in the backend just calling for example $_SESSION["username"] for the purpose of having "welcome [the current username]".
The only solution I've got is to do in every redirect/refresh a AJAX request to ask for that (the request is sent to the PHP script and it echoes the session username for example) but I think this would get very heavy for the server.
what are your thoughts?
