The login component

[Aesth]

Am I correct in understanding that the login component's documentation does not include a description of the remember parameter, but it does exist.

By the way, the password visibility mode behaves a little strangely: when you exit the field and return, the visibility toggle icon no longer appears. I think it should always be available, as soon as at least one character appears in the field.

[lovasoa]

There isn’t a remember parameter in this component, but there is a remember_me_text option you can use. You’ll find it documented here: sql-page.com/component?component=login

Regarding the password visibility behavior: the login component itself doesn’t include a visibility-toggle icon. If you’re seeing one appear only sometimes, that’s most likely coming from your browser or from a browser extension that adds this feature automatically.

Hope this helps!

[Aesth]

On the page , I found a mention of the parameter in the section:

To know if the user wants their identity to be remembered, you must read the value of the variable :remember.

in the paragraph

A few things to know":

But it's not in the component's parameter list, only the parameter for its header—remember_me_text. And I need to get the active value of the checkbox itself.

Regarding the visibility toggle, that's a browser issue, not a component issue. Ok.

[lovasoa]

Ok, I think there is a misunderstanding. Component properties are the column names you use in the select statements that invoke the component. In the following, remember_me_text is a top-level property of the login component:

select 
    'login' as component,
    'Remember me' as remember_me_text;

Variables are the things that contain pieces of information and you can reference in your sql queries with :var_name or $var_name.

To know if the user wants their identity to be remembered, you must read the value of the variable :remember.

This sentence indicates that when you set the remember_me_text property, you can access the information of whether the user checked the box or not in the :remember variable.

Hope this clears things up !

[lovasoa]

I updated the docs, hopefully it's clearer now: https://sql-page.com/component.sql?component=login

[Aesth]

Okay, I get it. The list simply had username and password parameters, but there are username and password variables. It turns out that the component, in addition to parameters, can set values ​​to an unspecified number of variables, which is a bit confusing. The addition you made clarified the situation, but the next question arises: which variables can other components set? Or is the login component unique?

I thought of components as objects with properties, some of which can return values, but that was an incorrect assumption.

[lovasoa]

The component does not set variables directly. Any user can set any variable to any value in the beginning of your page by sending url parameters and an http POST query body.

The form and login components both generate forms. When the user submits a form, their browser sends variable to the target page, which SQLPage makes accessible to you with the $var and :var syntax.

[Aesth]

When using the login component, I didn't explicitly create the username , password , and remember variables using the SET command. The only way I understand it is that the component does create them, but indirectly, by declaring input fields in the page sent to the end user's browser, which in turn, via a GET or POST command, returns them as named values, which SQLPage allows using as variables. Right?