Posted by Paul Bramscher on 01/17/07 17:43

neil.mcdonald@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to PHP and MySQL, and need to implement an access control
> system similar to many web retailers:
>
> The database will track jobs, so a person needs to be able to enter a
> new job onto the database. That job will be allocated at the entry
> stage to an engineer.
>
> What I need is for only the person entering the job and the engineer to
> be able to see that particular job. i.e. each of them sees only the
> jobs relevant to them.
>
> Can anyone give me any suggestions about how this might be implemented
> with PHP and MySQL? I'm very happy to go and learn the details if
> someone can give me an outline of how this can be achieved.

If you're new, you probably don't want to roll your own. PHP has
built-in sessions, but that won't be enough. You should probably check
out this: http://pear.php.net/packages.php?catpid=1&catname=Authentication

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