Posted by laredotornado@zipmail.com on 10/23/06 20:57

I have seen .htaccess files, but how can they be built so that they
read from a database of stored username and passwords?

Thanks, - Dave


Ron wrote:
> <laredotornado@zipmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1161622661.162877.145300@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm using PHP 4.4.4 with MySQL 5.0. I have a USERS table wher I store
> > a username and password for each user. I have a directory (containing
> > both HTML and PHP files) that I would like only logged in users to
> > access. What is the simplest scheme for password protecting thsi
> > directory? I would prefer not to touch every page and add access
> > control logic, but if that's the easiest way, so be it.
> >
> > Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. - Dave
>
> Dave,
> if your server supports it you could use .htaccess files (apache style) to
> control user access.
> otherwise you can write a simple access control system and make it a
> require_once in each PHP file.
>
> Only the .htaccess will protect the html files on their own, It is often
> useful to put pages and fragments that you don't want users to discover in
> directories outside of the browsing path of the user, then get PHP to
> include or require them as needed.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ron

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